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Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga News and Community Announcements => General Internet News => Topic started by: GadgetMaster on December 17, 2002, 09:14:56 AM
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"Ever feel like not being a marketing statistic? Well just by playing certain store-bought compact discs in your home or office computer, your new music disc may be transmitting your listening habits in real time to the respective record company...." Charming. Read on for more... (http://slashdot.org/articles/02/12/15/2024207.shtml?tid=141)
Source http://slashdot.org/ (http://slashdot.org/)
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Very interesting new idea, what are they going to advertise on the box "Bonus Spyware included" or "Pirate me quickly" ;-)
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Thats ok, it will no doubt be programmed for Windows or Mac, it won't runn on the Amiga ;-)
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Oh no! Record companies might be able to figure out that 85% of people who like Soil also listen to Stone Sour!
Who really cares? its not like they're harvesting really personal information that could be used against you.
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@ Tickly
How do you know that?
:-o :-o :-o
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Muahahahaha! I actually run a massive international conglomerate called "Tickly, Inc". We are a secretive company, but we actually own Microsoft, all the major record and film companies, and all the commercial radio and TV stations in the world. You are ALL running my spyware! I KNOW EVERYTHING! :-D
Errr... or not...
As Vic Reeves once said "88.2% of all statistics are made up on the spot"
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If I had the money I'd sue them for unuathorised usage of cpu cycles, and therefore electricity.
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Hehehe.. sue them for mental anguish caused by big-brother style paranoia generated by the presence of spyware on your system, too. Claim you can no longer sleep, and concentrating on your work is very difficult.
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IMO it's rather frightening what companies are trying to get away with regards to invasion of privacy. It's even more frightening how many people take the attitude "Who cares" or "If I don't notice it, it doesnt affect me". People really should educate themselves about what is going on in their very own home.
Could you imagine the outrage if it was discovered in the 1970s that the (mandatory) cable boxes provided by and owned by the cable company had hidden cameras that permitted the cable company to monitored you 24/7? Or if the mandatory telephones(in the US) of <1970s provided by Ma Bell included a bug device for marketers to easedrop on all your phone conversations? But since it's a computer, and the general public hardly knows where the ON button is, it's ok.
Pathetic. :-x
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Thats ok, it will no doubt be programmed for Windows or Mac, it won't runn on the Amiga
If the RIAA has their way, you wont even be able to play the CD at all on your Amiga, or Linux etc.
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Don't you just love spyware? How about the RIAA? GEESH!!
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@ red
Cameras in the cable boxes?
WTH are you rambling about?!? :-)
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@ Tickly
I knew it!!! :-o
You won't succeed!
VIVA LA RESISTANCE!
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WTH are you rambling about?!?
Invasion of privacy. I'm comparing an obvious REAL ivasion of privacy in modern day, with fictional invasion of privacy from years past. The real is no better than the fictional just because it is higher tech.
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Anyone that does this sort of #### or installs spyware on peoples machines then they deserve to have their products pirated the hell out of them but who really cares as people (especially the amiga community) love to turn a blind eye),
Look at how many die hards hero worship Elbox, which says it all.
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Right on Red!
More about RIAA:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/28588.html (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/28588.html)
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Red:
Yeah, only on AUTHORIZED PLAYERS for just pennies a song per play.
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Invasion of privacy. I'm comparing an obvious REAL ivasion of privacy in modern day, with fictional invasion of privacy from years past. The real is no better than the fictional just because it is higher tech.
Ahh! I see what you mean.
In fifty years we will all be in a gigantic "Big brother" show anyway. :-D
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Elektro said:
More about RIAA:
www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/28588.html (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/28588.html)
Also, see:
Recording Artists Safety Guide To The Beach (http://www.attrition.org/gallery/computing/riaa.jpg)
:-D
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Suprised no-one has mentioned this before but:
Play the cd in your hifi cd player rather than your computer....and hey presto no more spyware!!!
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Play the cd in your hifi cd player rather than your computer....and hey presto no more spyware!!!
Problem is that for many people, their computer has actually become THE hifi stereo component in the house.
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I don't really think that Bandlink qualifies as spyware. I mean, you have to explicitly agree to install it on your computer, you know that it'll send info about the CD you play and that it'll be stored in your profile, and before installation you agree to an EULA (yeah yeah, "who reads EULAs").
If you don't want it, don't install it. Even better, turn off the annoying autorun "feature" in Windows (seriously, is there anyone with a clue who HASN'T turned that off as soon as Windows is installed?) and you won't even be nagged to install it when you insert a "contaminated" CD.
When it comes to spyware I think there are much more insidious examples out there than Bandlink.
Oh well, not running Windows still has its advantages. :)