View Full Version : Stop Calling Gator Spyware


The Jake
10-24-2003, 07:25 PM
http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-5095051.html?tag=nefd_top

I don't fully understand the legal system here but how can something be liable if its true?

- J.

Crystalline Dream
10-24-2003, 07:31 PM
Gator maintains that its software differs from spyware in that people are clearly notified before they download it, and in that they do so in exchange for a service, like the peer-to-peer software. Spyware, the company maintains, is surreptitiously installed and gives the unwitting computer user no benefit.

--Taken from the article :)

Bella
10-24-2003, 07:38 PM
Thanks for reminding me to run Spybot.

The Jake
10-24-2003, 08:36 PM
I think any software that reports back the activities of the end user to a third party would constitute "spying".

They're justifying it by saying that "it's not spying if you KNOW about it" which is a pretty lame excuse really.

- J.

realkaps
10-24-2003, 09:24 PM
Jessica Alba is on the cover Maxim. Niiiiiice......

The Jake
10-24-2003, 09:26 PM
Nice. Can't wait for my next issue.

- J.

realkaps
10-24-2003, 09:27 PM
Mine came today....

Bella
10-24-2003, 09:56 PM
She's hot.

Fallout
10-24-2003, 10:08 PM
Originally posted by Bella
She's hot.

That she is

realkaps
10-24-2003, 11:03 PM
Yes....