{"id":1206,"date":"2002-02-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-02-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seegras.discordia.ch\/Blog\/?p=1206"},"modified":"2019-01-17T23:08:04","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T22:08:04","slug":"what-im-boycotting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seegras.discordia.ch\/Blog\/what-im-boycotting\/","title":{"rendered":"What I&#8217;m Boycotting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><br \/>\nIf an advertisement insults our intelligence, you should not buy the product &#8212; Richard Feynmann<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m currently boycotting various corporations and entieties because of<br \/>\nthe rubbish they do, becaue their commercials question my intelligence,<br \/>\nor because they behave like villains, robber-barons and big brother.<\/p>\n<h4>Using patents as weapon<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Amazon.com &#8212; for a lawsuit on a &#8220;one-click shopping&#8221; patent.<\/li>\n<li>Patent Offices &#8212; for being a bad idea<\/li>\n<li>Unisys &#8212; lzw-compression patent enforcing<\/li>\n<li>Akamai.net &#8212; allegedly Digital Island violated their patents.<\/li>\n<li>British Telecom &#8212; patent on Hyperlinks. How stupid can you get?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Enforcing copyright while violating &#8220;fair-use&#8221;<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Sony Pictures Entertainment &#8212; DVD lawsuits, MP3 lawsuits<\/li>\n<li>Universal Music &#8212; MP3 lawsuits<\/li>\n<li>EMI &#8212; MP3 lawsuits<\/li>\n<li>Polygram &#8212; MP3 lawsuits<\/li>\n<li>Bob Dylan &#8212; for using traditional chords but supporting lengthening<br \/>\ncopyright-duration for another 20 years. What a bigot.<\/li>\n<li>The Chamber Brothers &#8212; Copyright bullying, sueing MP3.com<\/li>\n<li>The Coasters &#8212; Copyright bullying, sueing MP3.com<\/li>\n<li>The Original Drifters &#8212; Copyright bullying, sueing MP3.com<\/li>\n<li>Metallica &#8212; Sueing Napster Inc. and Universities which have not<br \/>\nbanned Napster.<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Dre &#8212; Also sueing Napster Inc.<\/li>\n<li>Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. &#8212; DVD\/DeCSS lawsuits<\/li>\n<li>Disney Enterprises, Inc. &#8212; DVD\/DeCSS lawsuits, cheesy cartoons, plus<br \/>\nlengthening the copyright from 70 to 95 years; while using heavily<br \/>\npublic domain material like &#8220;Aladdin&#8221;. Bigots.<\/li>\n<li>Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. &#8212; DVD\/DeCSS lawsuits<\/li>\n<li>Paramount Pictures Corporation &#8212; DVD\/DeCSS lawsuits<\/li>\n<li>TriStar Pictures, Inc. &#8212; DVD\/DeCSS lawsuits<\/li>\n<li>Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation &#8212; DVD\/DeCSS lawsuits<\/li>\n<li>United Artists Pictures, Inc. &#8212; DVD\/DeCSS lawsuits<\/li>\n<li>United Artists Corporation &#8212; DVD\/DeCSS lawsuits<\/li>\n<li>Universal City Studios, Inc. &#8212; DVD\/DeCSS lawsuits<\/li>\n<li>Warner Bros., a Division of Time Warner Entertainment Company, L.P. &#8212; DVD\/DeCSS lawsuits<\/li>\n<li>Motion Pictures Association of America (MPAA) &#8212; DVD\/DeCSS lawsuits<\/li>\n<li>Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) &#8212; MP3 lawsuits<\/li>\n<li>Business Software Alliance (BSA) &#8212; Copyright bullying<\/li>\n<li>Software Piracy Agency (SPA) &#8212; Copyright bullying<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Otherwise doing bullshit<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Applied Digital Technologies &#8212; for producing Big Brother equipment<\/li>\n<li>Hasbro &#8212; for doing bullshit with ex-Avalon Hill products<\/li>\n<li>Mattel &#8212; for CyberPatrol blocking criticism on CyberPatrol and<br \/>\nsueing People criticising it.<\/li>\n<li>McDonalds &#8212; for trashy products<\/li>\n<li>Microsoft &#8212; for trashy products, playing monopoly, microsoft keyboards,<br \/>\nproprietary file formats and much much more.<\/li>\n<li>Doubleclick.net &#8212; for spying on web-users<\/li>\n<li>Etoys.com &#8212; for domain bullying against etoy.<\/li>\n<li>Real Networks (Realaudio) &#8212; for spying on users<\/li>\n<li>National Security Agency (NSA) &#8212; spying out the whole world<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Better behave<\/h4>\n<p>Either they play nice or I&#8217;ll boycott them as well.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>LucasArts<\/li>\n<li>Sun Microsystems<\/li>\n<li>Truste &#8212; violating their own privacy policy (a mistake?)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If an advertisement insults our intelligence, you should not buy the product &#8212; Richard Feynmann I&#8217;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. 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