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

[Dave Robinson <domino27@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jamie Martino wrote:

> > 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.

Am I talking about the same thing?

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If I`m not .. sorry

Dave Robinson

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