[105250] in Cypherpunks
Re: Advertising Creepiness
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Schear)
Mon Nov 9 03:19:11 1998
In-Reply-To: <v03130305b26bf42e91fd@[209.66.101.228]>
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 00:00:31 -0800
To: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
From: Steve Schear <schear@lvcm.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Reply-To: Steve Schear <schear@lvcm.com>
>I wonder if advertisers will try to cite some right to enjoin ad busters
>from busting their ads? (Far-fetched, perhaps. But imagine if a particular
>version of this filtering occurrred...imagine the howls if Microsoft
>Explorer automatically filtered out the ads of companies it disliked or was
>competing against? Legal? Restraint of trade?)
They'll probably claim that the entire Web site feed (ads and all) are
copyrighted and try to prevent purveyors of software or services which
attempt to modify their copyright material and present it in a modified
fashion without permission. TV broadcasters successfully used this tactic
against taverns which inserted local ads during Monday Night Football.
--Steve
