Open Letter to Shawn Bode and Sextracker

Hell Puppy · 10-31-2003

And I agree that there could be some interesting legal precedents at hand.

There's a question of who owns what is on a user's screen and who has the right to dictate what goes there.

Do you have the right to take a webmaster's traffic if he agreed to your T&C's giving you permission when he placed your code on his site?

Stepping further down than that, when the user clicks "ok" to T&C's to download some obnoxious spyware or whatever, does that give you the right to abuse them anyway you see fit?

I agree, could be bigger than Acacia. Rulings go the wrong way and the web could be rendered virtually useless as it becomes one big circle jerk with the poor surfer having no idea where he's going on the next click.

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10-31-2003	#12
Hell Puppy Fat Fucking Nobody Want to see your own Advertising Here! Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 6,523	And I agree that there could be some interesting legal precedents at hand. There's a question of who owns what is on a user's screen and who has the right to dictate what goes there. Do you have the right to take a webmaster's traffic if he agreed to your T&C's giving you permission when he placed your code on his site? Stepping further down than that, when the user clicks "ok" to T&C's to download some obnoxious spyware or whatever, does that give you the right to abuse them anyway you see fit? I agree, could be bigger than Acacia. Rulings go the wrong way and the web could be rendered virtually useless as it becomes one big circle jerk with the poor surfer having no idea where he's going on the next click.