L.L. Bean Sues After Name Triggers AdWare Popups
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L.L. Bean Sues Nordstrom Over Adware
Pop-Ups
L.L. Bean Sues Nordstrom Over Adware
Pop-Ups
05/18/2004 11:52 AMThere have been many, many lawsuits filed against the various
adware/spyware companies that will place ads over certain web pages
(for example, putting a FedEx ad over the page if someone visits the
UPS website). The real problem with these companies is the fact that
their products are often installed without the end users realizing it,
and they make it very difficult to remove. However, that legal issue
(sneaking stuff onto your computer) gets confused with the other legal
question of whether or not it's illegal for these products to pop-up
these ads for competitors. The lawsuits have returned mixed results.
Sometimes the adware companies
win
and sometimes they
lose. On the whole, they should win these cases. If (and it's a
huge if) someone installs this software on purpose - then why
shouldn't they be allowed to let the software pop up ads from
competitors? Maybe I
want to know about competitors to the
websites I visit? Why shouldn't I be allowed to set that up on my own
computer? The real problem with these products is the fact that they
are installed without any real notification (often by having it hidden
in the fine print while installing another product). Still, the
lawsuits continue. This time, however, L.L. Bean is taking a
different path and one that makes a little more sense (though, I still
think they should lose). Instead of suing companies like WhenU and
Gator directly, they're
suing Nordstrom, J.C. Penney, Atkins and Gevalia for buying ads
on one of these systems to pop up whenever someone visits the L.L.
Bean website. To me, this is the same question of whether or not
Google
can sell trademarked advertising terms. The companies doing the
advertising aren't violating trademarks. A trademark doesn't give a
company all rights to a word or phrase - it just lets them protect it
from others pretending to be them. However, by suing the other
companies, they're following the same plan some are
sugge
sting companies take with Google: don't sue Google, but sue the
advertising companies. Still, I don't see how this is anything other
than someone trying to position their ads well. For years, companies
have bought billboards outside of their competitors. IBM and Informix
have run billboards right outside of Oracle's offices for years. Fox
News apparently has a billboard outside of CNN's offices. It may be a
little obnoxious (and who knows how well it actually works), but it's
certainly not
illegal. If L.L. Bean really wanted to help,
they should just offer adware/spyware removal tools on their site and
fight to against the sneaky nature by which these programs are
installed without users knowing it.
Adware Company Sues Other Adware Company
Over Evil Adware
Adware Company Sues Other Adware Company
Over Evil Adware
07/28/2004 08:29 PM180Solutions, who has been repeatedly trashed as being a spyware
provider (but who somehow convinced a VC to
give
them $40 million), recently was accused of
stealin
g affiliate commissions via its adware. The company denied this
claim quite loudly, and have always denied that they installed their
app surreptitiously (though, a quick Google search suggests
otherwise). Now, however, they have
sued two "partner" companies who they
claim did bad things with their software. This seems a bit
sketchy. Basically, they're saying two partner companies they gave
their application to bundled it with other programs and installed it
without asking or warning users. Looks like they're suddenly trying
to seem more legit, but if the spyware claims have been around as long
as they have, and it only took until now for 180solutions to react,
you have to wonder what they've been doing all this time.
Claria sues L.L.Bean
Claria sues L.L.Bean
06/09/2004 05:29 PML.L. Bean Sues Pop-Up Advertisers (AP)
L.L. Bean Sues Pop-Up Advertisers (AP)
05/17/2004 04:23 PMAP - L.L. Bean filed lawsuits Monday against four companies it alleges
used pop-up ads that appeared when some customers visited the clothier
and outdoor gear retailer's Web site.
L.L. Bean Sues Pop-Up Advertisers
L.L. Bean Sues Pop-Up Advertisers
05/17/2004 07:38 PML.L. Bean files lawsuits against four companies that it alleges used
pop-up ads that appeared when some customers visited the clothier and
outdoor gear retailer's Web site.
180solutions sues allies over adware
180solutions sues allies over adware
07/28/2004 07:54 PMThe advertising software maker alleges that two partners loaded its
ad-serving software onto people's PCs without first getting their
consent.
Adware Company Sues Over Anti-Spyware
Law
Adware Company Sues Over Anti-Spyware
Law
04/13/2004 02:10 PMWhenU, one of the more well known adware companies has
filed a lawsuit to
block Utah's anti-spamware law, claiming that it restricts their
constitutional rights to advertise. While a lot of companies have
been
fighting against the bill, a number of careful reads through the
law have pointed out that it actually seems to
do a pretty good
job of defining spyware. It basically prevents software from
sending info home without making this fact clear to the end user or
providing them with an easy way to uninstall the software. In
fighting the law, most companies have been fairly vague in explaining
just what legitimate software would be made illegal. The main issue
is really just the notion of informing users that their data will be
sent somewhere - and it's tough to come up with a good reason why the
users shouldn't be informed. As far as I can tell, those fighting
against the law are basically admitting that they want to
secretly record your info and send it off somewhere.
Claria Sues L.L.Bean To Get Them To Stop
Suing Claria Customers
Claria Sues L.L.Bean To Get Them To Stop
Suing Claria Customers
06/10/2004 03:09 AMLast month, L.L. Bean decided to go one step further from suing Claria
for putting pop-up ads over the browsers of Claria users when they
visited the L.L. Bean website and
sued
the advertisers whose ads showed up. At the time, we pointed out
that this was ridiculous. Putting those ads there is no different
from someone buying a billboard in front of a competitor's office,
which is a practice many companies do. The
real problem with
Claria (and it
is a problem) is that the software gets
installed without users knowing it. However, if a user
does
want Claria's Gator product running (and, amazingly enough, some
people do want it), that's their decision. There is no law that
someone can't use software that pops up advertisements when they visit
someone else's website. After realizing that their advertising
customers were upset over these lawsuits, Claria has struck back and
sued L.L. Bean for filing frivolous
lawsuits. Of course, their reasoning isn't so much that these
actions are perfectly legal - but that some of the companies sued are
no longer Claria customers (which could mean they'll turn around and
sue Claria back for causing them to get sued - some lawyers are likely
reviewing indemnification clauses as we speak). Either way, this is a
big legal mess over the wrong issue. What Claria is doing with their
ads is perfectly legal. What they're doing with the installation of
Gator, however, is a much bigger question - but none of the lawsuits
focus on that.
Corn Toss, Cornhole, Bean Bag and Bean
Toss - Rules, Sets and Standards
Corn Toss, Cornhole, Bean Bag and Bean
Toss - Rules, Sets and Standards
06/02/2004 03:29 PMThe American Cornhole Association - All I'm saying is that it is
completely safe for work .. America's National Asstime .. Further
Evidence .. wrong
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Top Tip: Attack of the popups!
Top Tip: Attack of the popups!
05/11/2004 12:13 PMI am trying to get rid of the pop-ups in a computer of a family
member. I thought I had successfully eliminated it all, but it
re-appeared within a couple days.
Kill the popups
Kill the popups
05/18/2004 07:29 AMNew version cooming soon.
Top Tip: W2K weird popups and blocks!
Top Tip: W2K weird popups and blocks!
02/17/2004 01:15 PMI just reinstalled W2K and it all seems to be working just dandy, but
I get about 100 of these pop ups per day saying 'WARNING: This message
confirms your computer is vulnerable to attacks' and 'see
www.MessageHackShield.com to fix this' or some site like that (there
are several different ones as well as several different sized popups).
Mozilla still champ when it comes to
stopping popups
Mozilla still champ when it comes to
stopping popups
02/11/2003 08:33 AMWell, that's easy to correct: go to toolbar.google.com, and download
Google Toolbar, which brings all of the most useful features of
Google--plus a couple of ...
Mozilla Testing Block for New Popups
Mozilla Testing Block for New Popups
04/04/2005 09:28 PMMozilla developers have begun testing a patch for Firefox that blocks
a new breed of pop-up advertisements that bypass traditional pop-up
blockers. Instead of being spawned by JavaScript code, the new pop-ups
load from within third-party plug-ins such as Macromedia Flash or
Sun's Java.
Dr Design - Closing Popups and
Propagating Data
Dr Design - Closing Popups and
Propagating Data
08/10/2002 02:15 AMWebmasterBase Aug 10 2002 0:40AM ET
Convert Safari popups to normal windows.
Convert Safari popups to normal windows.
05/24/2004 10:44 AMI often find myself in pop-ups that have no address bars. Safari has
an awkward shortcut to invoke the address bar (command+shift+), but I
discovered that the Google shortcut on the edit menu accomplishes the
same thing, an...
Dr. Design - Popups, Domain Names,
Copyright and More
Dr. Design - Popups, Domain Names,
Copyright and More
09/07/2002 01:44 AMWebmasterBase Sep 7 2002 0:41AM ET
Be careful when allowing popups in
Mozilla and Firefox
Be careful when allowing popups in
Mozilla and Firefox
04/18/2005 06:05 PMThose of you using Mozilla or Firefox need to read this important
security notice. The condensed version do not all popups on sites you
don't 100% trust! [ZDN
et]
Legal Issues Facing Spam, Popups And
Spyware
Legal Issues Facing Spam, Popups And
Spyware
01/03/2005 06:04 AMIt appears that politicians are increasingly paying attention to
internet "evils" along the lines of spyware, spam and popups. In all
cases, these are instances where the openness of the network has been
abused, creating certain problems. However, it's not clear that any
of these legislative solutions are likely to do any good. We already
pointed out how
ineffec
tive CAN SPAM has been, but a few interesting things happened over
the weekend in the areas of popups and spyware. First, a Utah court
ruled that
pop up
ads were not covered by an anti-spam law in that state. The law
in question is no longer in effect, so it doesn't really matter -- but
it does suggest that the idea of using "unsolicited" email legislation
against other forms of "unsolicited" advertising is unlikely to get
very far. The news that's getting the most attention, however, is
California's decision to
pass
anti-spyware legislation that would give out fines for spyware
purveyors. The
text of the actual law is worth
reading, as it's clear that a fair amount of thought went into it.
However, it's not entirely clear it will do much to stop spyware.
First, the sneakiest forms of spyware have been very careful to hide
who is really responsible for the products -- meaning, they're likely
to successfully remain hidden from any lawsuits. The just slightly
more legitimate adware variant of spyware, on the other hand, has
always been more about social engineering than any
technical
trickery. That is, they bury the permissions in a ton of language so
that no one is really sure what they're agreeing to. Assuming this
continues, these firms will be able to claim that they presented the
end user with a choice, and those end users agreed to move ahead with
the installation.
L.L. Bean Electronic Pet Tag for $27
L.L. Bean Electronic Pet Tag for $27
06/03/2004 10:20 AM
Reader Josh Arfer passes
along word that L.L. Bean's Dog E-Tag, a digital 40-line LCD
identification bangle for your dog (or other hefty pet) has been
dropped from its normal $40 to around $27. The text only displays in a
single color, though, so you might want to throw some asterisks around
"infested with bowel-rending worms."
Read [LLBean]
Secure FTP Bean 2.0.11
Secure FTP Bean 2.0.11
11/05/2003 03:03 AMA Java bean for performing secure FTP transfers.
ADM's Bean Counting
ADM's Bean Counting
06/22/2004 10:42 AMADM is positioned to benefit from China's growth as a consumer of
imported soybean oil.
Database Bean Generator
Database Bean Generator
03/19/2005 02:38 AMReleased version 2.0.0rc4
Perl and Bean Scripting Framework?
Perl and Bean Scripting Framework?
02/04/2003 01:45 PMSo... has anyone gotten to making a Perl engine for the Bean Scripting
Framework? I can't seem to find a decent archive of the dev mailing
lists, and the links from the Jakarta home page are broken. And, of
course, Google doesn't help me much except to point me at all sorts of
pages saying that BSF supports scripting languages "like Python and
Perl", but without actually showing me the Perl money. Well, if
not,...
Snake Skin Bean Breaker
Snake Skin Bean Breaker
09/02/2004 01:28 PMNamespace Collision
Gator, L.L. Bean dispute to be reheard
Gator, L.L. Bean dispute to be reheard
04/30/2004 02:57 PMAn appeals court orders greater scrutiny of the case between the two
companies.
JavaScript Triggers
JavaScript Triggers
02/01/2005 09:28 PM Now that you've separated your website's (XHTML) structure from its
(CSS) presentation, wouldn't it be great to similarly abstract the
behavioral (JavaScript) layer from the others? ALA prodigal Peter-Paul
Koch shows how to use JavaScript Triggers to do just that.
L.L. Bean Suing Competitors For
Spyware-Linked Ads
L.L. Bean Suing Competitors For
Spyware-Linked Ads
05/19/2004 06:00 AMSlashdot May 19 2004 9:13AM GMT
L.L. Bean Suing Competitors For
Spyware-Linked Ads
L.L. Bean Suing Competitors For
Spyware-Linked Ads
05/18/2004 08:52 PMBriefly: Gator, L.L. Bean dispute to be
reheard
Briefly: Gator, L.L. Bean dispute to be
reheard
04/30/2004 04:18 PMCNET Apr 30 2004 8:29PM GMT
Database Bean Generator 2.0.0 rc4
(Default branch)
Database Bean Generator 2.0.0 rc4
(Default branch)
03/19/2005 03:21 AM
Generator is an command line application written
in java that have the goal to make easy the
construction of little applications that needs
some database objects stuff. It isn't a
replacement of complex object persistence
solutions, like hibernate or TopLink but it covers
a different target. The little java web
applications that dont' use sofisticated
persistence options. Generator invocation is
simple, just type java -jar generator.jar -xml
where config-file is a xml config file with the
definitions to connect to the database and
generate the bean classes.
Changes:
This release added output of the actual database structure (for future
offline generation). A flag was added to the config file for updating
only dirty fields individually. Table definitions can now be in
separate XML files included by the main file. A random
serialVersionUID is now created for the generated classes, and default
serialVersionUIDs were added for core classes. Better JavaDoc is
provided in generated classes. A lot of STDOUT debug output was
eliminated, and the MySQL/J Connector was updated to version 3.1.7.
Database Bean Generator 2.0.0 (Default
branch)
Database Bean Generator 2.0.0 (Default
branch)
03/28/2005 08:10 PM
Generator is an command line application written
in java that have the goal to make easy the
construction of little applications that needs
some database objects stuff. It isn't a
replacement of complex object persistence
solutions, like hibernate or TopLink but it covers
a different target. The little java web
applications that dont' use sofisticated
persistence options. Generator invocation is
simple, just type java -jar generator.jar -xml
where config-file is a xml config file with the
definitions to connect to the database and
generate the bean classes.
Changes:
This release adds a general parameter to extra import directives,
duplication in methods to pass an external connection, an Ant task to
use generator inside Ant has, some initial support for Oracle
exclusive features(SEQUENCES), more decent documentation and examples,
and online Javadoc and documentation. The database schema output has
been fixed to show primary keys. Some code cleanups and errors and
exceptions handling. The generation of an invalid class from tables
without primary keys is avoided. build.xml now has more targets to
make distribution packages.
Smoking triggers genetic changes
Smoking triggers genetic changes
06/21/2004 08:20 PMSmoking alters the genes of lung cells, US scientists show for the
first time.
Broadband triggers extended again
Broadband triggers extended again
11/17/2003 03:12 PMvnunet.com Nov 17 2003 1:38PM ET
MySQL Triggers Tryout
MySQL Triggers Tryout
02/05/2005 09:55 PM
MySQL 5.0 promises trigger support. What will it look like? How
will it work? Peter Gulutzan takes MySQL triggers for a test-drive.
Robbers strike jelly bean plant
(Reuters)
Robbers strike jelly bean plant
(Reuters)
08/12/2004 10:30 PMReuters - Two armed men have robbed the Jelly Belly factory north of
San Francisco, making off
with cash but none of the jelly beans that were a favourite of the
late President Reagan, officials say.
Photo Archives: Jedi Mickey Mouse Bean
Bag
Photo Archives: Jedi Mickey Mouse Bean
Bag
07/24/2004 02:21 PMToday we update our
Star Tours section
of our
Photo
Archives with the 2004
Star Wars Weekends Exlusive
Jedi Mickey
Mouse Bean Bag. This plush was available during the event that
took place last May. For $12.00 could one of the 3000 plushes made be
yours.
Red Hat restatement triggers legal
attacks
Red Hat restatement triggers legal
attacks
07/15/2004 11:43 PMClass-action parade begins after Linux seller tweaks three years of
financial results.
What Are 7 Psychological Triggers That
Make People Buy?
What Are 7 Psychological Triggers That
Make People Buy?
06/05/2005 11:40 PMStickysauce Jun 6 2005 2:16AM GMT
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