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 sivranBack to Opera againPremium
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Re: Silencing the Critics: ISearch/IDownload I think, to thumb their noses at ISearch, Castle Cops should simply call it "trackware" or "adware" or just call it what it is: "Crapware."
Libel is, after all, only prosecutable if the statements are false, right?  And, libel also requires malice...
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| "And, libel also requires malice... "
Not in Canada or most Commonwealth countries.
Supreme court of Canada
"criticized U.S. law because it "exacts a major social cost by deprecating truth in public discourse." In other words, U.S. libel law makes truth in public debate less important than the debate itself."
Hill v. The Church of Scientology (1995
Just pointing out that notions about legality are limited.
Your laws are not necessarily mine.
( see file trading, copyright etc.)
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said by sivran:I think, to thumb their noses at ISearch, Castle Cops should simply call it "trackware" or "adware" or just call it what it is: "Crapware." Libel is, after all, only prosecutable if the statements are false, right? And, libel also requires malice... Good points, though the crapmiesters have more than one avenue of approach here. (Also, the malice requirement in the US is for a "public official" or "public figure".)
OK, the time is now certainly past for what is left of the CRAPWARE Detection and Removal community to stop typing, set aside some time even from R&D, and pick up their phones, band together and develop strategies to deal with these scum pro-actively, both on a individual, and on a united front. Unfortunately, this will involve retaining council that is fully competent in this area.
NOW.
It's also way past time to start gathering and collating data on the total COSTS to people to deal with the results of this crapware. The anticrapware Forums themselves have a wealth of this data.
I hope this is well underway by this late, but not yet too late, point.
To do otherwise, seems to me, to increase the odds that the crapmeisters will prevail to an unpleasant degree.
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