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Spitzer Sues Intermix Media for Bundling Spyware
CousinLarry writes "Attorney General and corporate watchdog Eliot Spitzer has filed suit against Intermix Software, alleging that the company deviously and deceptively bundles spyware with its 'free' screensaver and game products. 'Spyware and adware are more than an annoyance,' Spitzer said. 'These fraudulent programs foul machines, undermine productivity and in many cases frustrate consumers' efforts to remove them from their computers.'"
Mark my words Spitzer: I will bury you!
the goverment accually does something to protect our rights online
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I do agree with this one. I find it completely unfair that I have to run Adaware Pro, Microsoft Antispyware, and Spybot just to browse hardcore-porn and warez sites.
Fixed that for you. It's funny cuz it's true.
Uh, isn't that the point of their business? They're a REPAIR shop. Next thing you know they're going to complain about "lost business" resulting from the suit.
Pffft. He's obviously looking to be bought. You'll see him change his opinion next article.
Great. There goes Minesweeper.
its high time we had a hangin!
/rant
seriously though, Perhaps it's fate that today, Arpil the Twenty ninth, we will once again fight for our freedom. Not from tyranny, persecution or oppression. But from assholes that bundle spyware with free screensavers. We're fighting for our right to live, to exist. From this day on, the twenty ninth day of April will no longer be remembered as an American holiday (not that it ever has) but as the day that all of mankind declared we will not go quietly into the night. We will not vanish without a fight. We will live on. We will survive.
serenity now!
Idiocy leads to Microsoft. Microsoft leads to spyware. Spyware leads to low bandwidth. Low bandwidth leads to buffering. I sense much idiocy in you.
Take off every sig. For great justice.
On behalf of all geeks who earn an excellent living cleaning spyware/adware: Keep 'em coming!
-- i drop mine in braille so you blind cats can read me
I'd vote for him several times.
If Diebold is involved, you probably will : )
Vino, gyno, and techno -Bruce Sterling
That only works for Republicans. Spitzer's a Democrat. If you want to cast multiple votes for him, you have to be dead.
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They're mapping a Big Brother database cataloguing the movements, activities, and social networks of trendy scenester teeny-boppers across international boundaries, working tirelessly to slow the influx of shoegazer music and needlessly-spiky hair past American borders.
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I guess you haven't seem some of the really nasty toilets out there!
If you don't know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else.
Got my mom a T-shirt several years ago, so she could wear it on election day... It read:
"I'm from Chicago... TWO BALLOTS PLEASE!"
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
We really need these kinds of guys in our government.
If that's what you all really want, then all it takes is your vote. Then watch who they appoint.
What?