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

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Carrie Bartkowiak wrote:

> In any order, a very firm letter to all of the involved companies
> protesting the use of your content as ad-generating or
> lead-generating revenue for them would probably be in order.

I'd go further if I found them changing words on MY site into hotlinks
to lead to their advertisers:

They and I are both in California.  I offer my website to my customers
as a service.  If they're underlining words on my website and changing
them into hotlinks for their advertisers, that's theft of service. 
Theft of service is a crime.

California law permits any citizen to arrest any other citizen for a
crime he's seen.

So if the district attorney won't arrest all the employees of the
company and charge them with theft of service, I will.

Plain and simple.

> They
> are, in essence, capitalizing off of YOUR copyrighted material
> (assuming you've copyrighted your pages).

Doesn't matter if you've copyrighted it or not, if you're in the U.S.
(or in many other countries), which offer statutory copyright on
anything/everything you've written.

> Select the Start Menu
> Choose the Run command from the menu
> Type in surfplus.exe /u and hit the O.K. button
> Answer 'Yes' to the question that pops up
> After you uninstall Surf+, please close all the IE windows.

This only deletes the program from your computer; it's a false sense of
security, because then you'll NEVER know if they're hijacking your
customers who have it installed on their computers.  I'd leave it on; in
fact I'm thinking of putting it on, so I can see how it works and if I
ought to arrest 'em.

Jeff
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