May 17
The music industry loves to tell us all how piracy has destroyed their business. They often equate downloading a song to stealing a car, or other absurdly exaggerated metaphors. While it may be true that physical cd sales have gone down significantly over the last ten years, the record companies are still doing just …
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Oct 07
It seems more and more developers are insisting on bundling extras with their freeware; toolbars are becoming common place as well as changes to home pages and search engines. Some are open and up front about it, many adopt a more sneaky approach – such as including automatic approval for additional installations/changes in a license …
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Aug 30
We have recently been discussing the pros and cons of bundling extras with downloaded software, and freeware in particular. Nobody appreciates this somewhat nefarious practice but CNET Download.com has taken it to a whole new level!
It doesn’t matter what you download from Download.com, it will come down with additional material in tow. There are …
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