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Re: Under what law can Amazon take action? I was curious about this as well, and fired an e-mail to a lawyer friend. Would there be much of a case against a plugin, created in the Netherlands, that doesn't actually change the target website? |
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| said by Karl Bode:I was curious about this as well, and fired an e-mail to a lawyer friend. Would there be much of a case against a plugin, created in the Netherlands, that doesn't actually change the target website? The thing about law suits (in the U.S.) is that anyone can file a law suit against anyone else for any reason. The only thing it takes is money for court costs and lawyer fees. Once a person is sued, they have to respond otherwise he/she will lose the suit.
If a large corporation decides to sue you, it's going to take a large amount of money and time to defend yourself, even if you have a good chance of winning the suit.
This is the MPAA/RIAA's method of operation. Many people would rather settle than go through that process.
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Suffern, NY | reply to Karl Bode
said by Karl Bode:I was curious about this as well, and fired an e-mail to a lawyer friend. Would there be much of a case against a plugin, created in the Netherlands, that doesn't actually change the target website? It did however change the display of the Web Site between the time it was sent by Amazon and when it was displayed on the user's screen. Thus it was, in theory, in the same class as the man-in-the-middle injection of ads that was occurring a while back and was discussed here. Thus I think that the same arguments that applied to the Ad Injection can be claimed to apply here. I am not saying that Amazon has a case but only that one may be possible to make. |
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| The link scanner on my antivirus changes the display of search results from Google, by placing an green icon next to links it deems safe to visit. It does it on my PC as the page is loading, and is somethng I willfully installed. Same as the Amazon plugin. Amazon has no say what happens on your own PC with a plug-in you installed yourself. It only changes your view of the page, not everybody's. |
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