Quote:
Originally Posted by dig420
wouldn't take much... 10 program owners at 10k each or 20 at 5k, any billing company could easily get such a coalition together. That should be enough to get any url hijacking method declared illegal. I don't see how it could stand up in court. Their only chance to fight it is to assert that surfers voluntarily sign up for this process and please correct me if I'm wrong, but the Gator case and some others have shown that this is a pretty weak defense.
|
I'm willing to go along with you on this if you get the attorney and he explains to us how we can/will win the case(s).
IMHO Zango is just the tip of the iceberg, they have a program that end users voluntarily install, they have a company with a public site, so they're easy to go after.
There are a ton of guys out there infecting end users with spyware, and then using it to steal our traffic using these same methods, and we don't know who they are or how to go after them.
I'm all for asserting our legal rights and going after people who steal our traffic AND people who steal our content.....BUT I'm not willing to throw money away just to push against the ocean and "fight the good fight" if it's not going to make a dent in the amount of traffic that's stolen from us on a daily basis.