What happened to our rights? These companies have no right to come into my pc and remove what I willingly and knowingly installed on my pc. Simple solution : Goodbye Radlight! While congress continues to discuss filesharing with the big media conglomerates they wont take a minute of their time to pass laws banning spam and the type of behavior discussed in this article. I have said this numerous times in these forums and I'll say it again Keep your money hungry hands off my PC. IT'S MY PC, MY AD-AWARE This is the same as a company coming into my house and disabling the security system I installed. I smell class action lawsuit here.
Can you imagine if Microsoft where to uninstall any non-Microsoft products off your PC simply because they hampered the functionality of their own software? When will it end? I understand companies have to get revenue in order to stay in business but I think it's time they found a new unintrusive way to advertise to us. What ever happened to banner ads? Unintrusive and I didnt really mind them. These companies wont listen to the consumer. WE DONT WANT POP-UPS OR POP-UNDERS, FLASH ADVERTISING, BACK BUTTON HIJACKING OR FAKE SYSTEM MESSAGES!!! -- AOL DSL SUCKS [text was edited by author 2002-04-24 10:02:20]
richk_1957 If ..Then..Else Premium join:2001-04-11 Minas Tirith
If you download Microsoft Media Player 7.1 & read the EUL carefully you find this: "*Digital Rights Management (Security). You agree that in order to protect the integrity of content and software protected by digital rights management ("Secure Content"), Microsoft may provide security related updates to the OS Components that will be automatically downloaded onto your computer. These security related updates may disable your ability to copy and/or play Secure Content and use other software on your computer. If we provide such a security update, we will use reasonable efforts to post notices on a web site explaining the update." In other words, you agree to let Microsoft download software that can disable things on your computer. It doesn't matter that they will make a effort to tell you about it. All you know is now something doesn't work & you had no say in the matter. It was done "automatically"
