What I’m Boycotting
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?)