WebSavvy
11-12-2001, 19:59/07:59PM
Hi All,
For those of you who may be interested in this as well, I have sent the following email to ezula. I will also post their reply.
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Dear Sirs:
Due to the resent wave of controversy that is surrounding individual web owners rights to protect themselves from encroaching software devices that use predatory advertising methods designed to generate traffic from sites that the software developers have not contracted with, and infringe upon intellectual property rights, ezula needs to provide meta data (tags) that will prevent further unsolicited intrusion by it's software.
Predatory advertising is defined as any method that creates, alters, or overlays links or banners on web sites, spawns browser windows, or any method invented to generate traffic from a web site without that web site owner's, knowledge, permission, or participation.
Examples include, but are not limited to, keyword parsing browser plugins such as Surf+, TopText, and eZula. Banner replacement technology such as Gator and Mirazo, or any browser spawning technology that is not web site dependent.
To date, no information has been provided by ezula that would give web owners the proper meta tools to stop your software intrusion. Do you have any intentions on making such tags available publicly or is it your position that you will just continue in your practices of intellectual property rights infringement and predatory advertising methods?
Please respond with a proposal that will satisfy web owners who have not agreed to nor been given the opportunity to disagree with your current practices.
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For those of you who may be interested in this as well, I have sent the following email to ezula. I will also post their reply.
================================
Dear Sirs:
Due to the resent wave of controversy that is surrounding individual web owners rights to protect themselves from encroaching software devices that use predatory advertising methods designed to generate traffic from sites that the software developers have not contracted with, and infringe upon intellectual property rights, ezula needs to provide meta data (tags) that will prevent further unsolicited intrusion by it's software.
Predatory advertising is defined as any method that creates, alters, or overlays links or banners on web sites, spawns browser windows, or any method invented to generate traffic from a web site without that web site owner's, knowledge, permission, or participation.
Examples include, but are not limited to, keyword parsing browser plugins such as Surf+, TopText, and eZula. Banner replacement technology such as Gator and Mirazo, or any browser spawning technology that is not web site dependent.
To date, no information has been provided by ezula that would give web owners the proper meta tools to stop your software intrusion. Do you have any intentions on making such tags available publicly or is it your position that you will just continue in your practices of intellectual property rights infringement and predatory advertising methods?
Please respond with a proposal that will satisfy web owners who have not agreed to nor been given the opportunity to disagree with your current practices.
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