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2old2care
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 Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 5:45 pm Post subject: Just in case you needed something to read |
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http://www.benedelman.org/
I've been checking this guy's website out for some while now. He seems to be a pretty smart follow. Certainly does his homework.
Currently, he's down on ol' Jeeves.
Thought some of you might like the reading.
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| Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 5:45 pm Post subject: Advertisement |
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Ham_fisT
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| Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 6:39 pm Post subject: |
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 WOW...that guy is a MACHINE
pretty good reading...and a lot of it..
| Quote: | | The Kazaa installer asks users to accept unusually lengthy license agreements. All told, the Kazaa installation requires accepting 22,606 words of license agreements -- nearly five times the length of the US Constitution. |
tell me the last time you read a license agreement like that 
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2old2care
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Yep...it's kind of an eye opener.
We really knew this stuff was going on, but this guy's documenting it.
He keeps his site up to date pretty well also. About once a week.
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gmoney
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wtf
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JayDubya
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| Posted: Thu May 05, 2005 3:14 am Post subject: |
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Wow, thanks for sharing. Definately gonna pass this on.
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fussnfeathers
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Yup, this is all stuff I've known about for some time, but this guy actually spent months documenting it all. It's a common practice to include ONE adware program with a free download (although how that makes revenue, I'm not entirely sure), but the cascading effect is enormous. Figure your mom installs one freeware program, with "one" adware program. That adware program might have 5 others bundled with it, again, for revenue, then those five programs might have 5 programs apiece that you "consent" to........it's staggering.
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