Thursday, April 18, 2002

Spyware in Freeware Applications



Frankly this is exactly why I've stepped away from file sharing applications. Yes spyware is now in a lot of other freeware apps, but lets face it, with millions of downloads, the P2P apps are the primary apps we are talking about here.

Unfortunatly due to those apps already having dubious legallity surrounding thier usage users have little voice. That's like complaining to the Better Business Bureau about a company that manufactures lock picks. Sure there are legitimate reasons for lock picks, however they are still dubiously viewed.

For this to get real legal notice apps with totally legal and legitimate usage need to be targeted by these spyware programs. Then maybe we'll start to see some changes in ELUAs.

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