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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.
Great. There goes Minesweeper.
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.
I'd vote for him several times.
If Diebold is involved, you probably will : )
Vino, gyno, and techno -Bruce Sterling
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.
Is it bad that I instantly had a vision of Eliot Spitzer uploading a virus from his Powerbook to the Intermix Corporate Headquarters, which he accessed with a stolen Intermix scout ship piloted by a fast-talking African-American costar?
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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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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.