Re: [cobalt-users] Stop eZula from stealing bandwidth

["Jamie Martino" <webmaster1@xxxxxxx>]

> Which means there's no way to redirect visitors using these copyright
> theft programs. I doubt there's even a way, using javascript or
> anything else, to keep the highlighted links from showing up.

I came up with the idea of designing all my sites on a yellow background so
that even if something was highlighted, the user wouldn't know..  :)  Below
is a copy of an email I fired off to Ezula...  I'll let you guys know if I
get a response from them and what type of response it was..  If there is no
way to prevent it from highlighting links on individual sites, then I say we
should have a nice class action lawsuit on our hands..  What they are doing
violates copyright laws everywhere..

<Email Rant>
To Whom it May Concern,

Is there a way for a single web site to block TopText from highlighting
words within it's web pages?  As a web developer, I hold the work I do
on the web sacred, it is an art..  Your software actually alters the way
my "Art" appears to the end user, not to mention allows for a user to
unwittingly leave any of my sites to go to a site which I might not even
endorse or might be a competitor of the site which they were visiting
originally.. At least with pop-ups and the like, each webmaster has to
make that decision to put that on their sites..  None of the sites I
design contain advertising, and none ever will.. Please tell me there is
a way to block this..  Thank you for your time..
</Email Rant>

-Jamie-
http://w-c.net
WebConnection.Net, Inc.