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If an advertisement insults our intelligence, you should not buy the product — Richard Feynmann

I’m currently boycotting various corporations and entieties because of
the rubbish they do, becaue their commercials question my intelligence,
or because they behave like villains, robber-barons and big brother.

Using patents as weapon

• Amazon.com — for a lawsuit on a “one-click shopping” patent.
• Patent Offices — for being a bad idea
• Unisys — lzw-compression patent enforcing
• Akamai.net — allegedly Digital Island violated their patents.
• British Telecom — patent on Hyperlinks. How stupid can you get?

Enforcing copyright while violating “fair-use”

• Sony Pictures Entertainment — DVD lawsuits, MP3 lawsuits
• Universal Music — MP3 lawsuits
• EMI — MP3 lawsuits
• Polygram — MP3 lawsuits
• Bob Dylan — for using traditional chords but supporting lengthening
  copyright-duration for another 20 years. What a bigot.
• The Chamber Brothers — Copyright bullying, sueing MP3.com
• The Coasters — Copyright bullying, sueing MP3.com
• The Original Drifters — Copyright bullying, sueing MP3.com
• Metallica — Sueing Napster Inc. and Universities which have not
  banned Napster.
• Dr. Dre — Also sueing Napster Inc.
• Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. — DVD/DeCSS lawsuits
• Disney Enterprises, Inc. — DVD/DeCSS lawsuits, cheesy cartoons, plus
  lengthening the copyright from 70 to 95 years; while using heavily
  public domain material like “Aladdin”. Bigots.
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. — DVD/DeCSS lawsuits
• Paramount Pictures Corporation — DVD/DeCSS lawsuits
• TriStar Pictures, Inc. — DVD/DeCSS lawsuits
• Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation — DVD/DeCSS lawsuits
• United Artists Pictures, Inc. — DVD/DeCSS lawsuits
• United Artists Corporation — DVD/DeCSS lawsuits
• Universal City Studios, Inc. — DVD/DeCSS lawsuits
• Warner Bros., a Division of Time Warner Entertainment Company, L.P. — DVD/DeCSS lawsuits
• Motion Pictures Association of America (MPAA) — DVD/DeCSS lawsuits
• Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) — MP3 lawsuits
• Business Software Alliance (BSA) — Copyright bullying
• Software Piracy Agency (SPA) — Copyright bullying

Otherwise doing bullshit

• Applied Digital Technologies — for producing Big Brother equipment
• Hasbro — for doing bullshit with ex-Avalon Hill products
• Mattel — for CyberPatrol blocking criticism on CyberPatrol and
  sueing People criticising it.
• McDonalds — for trashy products
• Microsoft — for trashy products, playing monopoly, microsoft keyboards,
  proprietary file formats and much much more.
• Doubleclick.net — for spying on web-users
• Etoys.com — for domain bullying against etoy.
• Real Networks (Realaudio) — for spying on users
• National Security Agency (NSA) — spying out the whole world

Better behave

Either they play nice or I’ll boycott them as well.

• LucasArts
• Sun Microsystems
• Truste — violating their own privacy policy (a mistake?)