I do however boycott Real Networks, not only because of the information they spam the user with, not only because of the recent privacy problems, and not only because streaming video stinks, but also because of the way they try to take over my computer when I install their product. The fastest way for a peice of software to get uninstalled from my computer is to install a task-bar icon that is useless, difficult to remove, unasked for, and consumes memory, just so the useless Real Player can load in .5 seconds instead of 2. My computer, not Real's!

I don't go in much for this style of idealism either, and I run a website dedicated to the cause :-). It almost seems hypocritical to expect the general public boycott anybody because of info-abuse.

Working with the Mac IE4.5 people. I hear 5 isn't being correctly detected by the script (pulled straight from the Microsoft site, no less). I hear there's a work-around for IE4.5, which is to move a simple function call into the "onload" event. And I hear that it still isn't working correctly for some IE4.5 people. Oh well... it was a neat idea, right?

Ooops. Lost everything from today. Let's retry:

ICraveTV deserves a Boundary Breakers entry. Although I can't see that they're terribly controversial (they're toast in the lawsuit, methinks), they sure seem to think they're doing nothing wrong.

Ummmm..... the fact that you simply claim that it is legal, moral, and ethical doesn't make it so either. Apparently it is legal in Canada to rebroadcast under certain circumstanes... and if the TV streams never left Canada, I'd have nothing to say. But ICraveTV doesn't appear to limit it at all, so, whether or not they mean to, they are violating a lot of laws in a lot of countries.

ICraveTV is Served Up a Lawsuit: "This is a clear and damaging case of theft by iCraveTV that threatens the intellectual property, investments, and achievements of the US television and motion picture industry," said Jack Valenti, president and chief executive office of the Motion Picture Association of America... vs. the ICraveTV line "What we're doing is ethical, is legal, is moral, and the fact that somebody claims to the contrary does not change the true nature of it."

Cynical prediction: Based on past experience, this case will settle while side-stepping as many issues as possible. People seem allergic to actually resolving anything.

DVD Case: Battle of the Basics: There's more issues flying around here then I feel safe in even explaining... just read the story, they're fairly clear in this case (which is why the EFF has mobilized).

Due to the EditThisPage.com crash, and subsequent restore from backup, a couple of messages in the Discussion area were lost. I'd like to state publicly... "I didn't do it, officer, it wasn't my fault!" I'll replace them, with permission from the posters involved. (You may also have lost membership if you signed up today.)