Lycos Shuts Down Controversial Screensaver
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Lycos Europe has shut down its screensaver, makelovenotspam, which delighted many Internet users with the opportunity to flood spammers&#39; Web sites with junk e-mail.
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Science & environment: Technology group criticised after forcing a website which reported on the firm's activities to close down
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INTERNET users fed up with spam can go on the offensive by downloading a screensaver aimed at hitting junkmailers in the pocket, net portal Lycos said.
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As quickly as it came, it left. Lycos Europe&#39;s anti-spam campaign, &quot;Make LOVE Not SPAM,&quot; (see our coverage appears to have been canned, as the screensaver has been pulled from the ISP&#39;s website.
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Lycos Europe has taken down their &quot;Make Love Not Spam&quot; campaign. After a short but popular campaign the company decided to stop their mission.
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A news site that has allowed its users to write and submit their own articles is shutting down, citing unspecified "business issues."
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Lycos Europe Cans Anti-Spam Effort  Lycos Europe attempted to get back at the leading spammers of the world through an initiative called âMakeLoveNotSpamâ. The move was applauded by the ordinary user of the web considering more than a lakh users downloaded the screensaver from the official website. However, many ISPs and ...
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The operators of Suprnova.org apologize to the service's users and quietly pull the plug. The shutdown follows hot on the heels of Hollywood's legal moves against BitTorrent tracker servers.
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The companies that make Scrabble are trying to shut down Scrabulous, an online version of the game that is one of the most popular applications on the social networking site Facebook.
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Notorious adware maker DirectRevenue has closed shop.The company, which was recently doing business as Best Offers, gave no reason for its sudden closure, which was announced on its Web site. &quot;Best Offers and Direct Revenue have ceased operations. To service legacy consumers, we are maintaining this page of uninstall instructions, an uninstall software tool, and an e-mail based support service.&quot;E-mail sent to the Gmail address listed on the company&#39;s Web site was returned as undeliverable.DirectRevenue was founded in 2002, but it managed to make a lot of people unhappy during the course of its short life. Its software, which was often installed without user consent, would bombard victims with unwanted pop-up ads and was difficult to remove.The company was fined $1.5 million by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission in February and it was also&#160;sued by the New York attorney general. Critics called the FTC fine a slap on the wrist, however, as the company is thought to have made more than $20 million from its questionable business practices.&quot;This is a business that never should have existed,&quot; said Ben Edelman, a critic of the company who is an assistant professor at the Harvard Business School. &quot;They never did anything useful for users and merely preyed on victims too trusting or hurried to protect themselves from DirectRevenue&#39;s attacks.&quot;Company management had recently positioned Best Offers as a legitimate software company, and Edelman said that he did not know if they were planning on continuing in business under a different name.&quot;The people behind this company walked away with tens of millions of dollars,&quot; he said. &quot;They&#39;ve got the money. If they&#39;re smart, they&#39;ll take it and run.&quot;
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"Make love not spam" screensaver continues to stir up controversy.
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New York - The Web portal Lycos Europe on Friday terminated a spam-fighting campaign that had been criticized as a breach of Internet civility.
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Lycos Europe appeared to have pulled a controversial antispam screensaver program from its site, after coming under fire from both security experts and the spammers themselves.
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Lycos Europe&#39;s Make Love Not Spam screensaver was unavailable Saturday following a string of bad publicity, Cnet News.com reported.
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A California district court has shut down a controversial Web site in the U.S. that allows whistle blowers to p...
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Lycos Europe has yanked its &quot;Make Love, Not Spam&quot; anti-spam screensaver from its site, leaving only a cryptic message of &quot;Stay Tuned&quot; in its place.
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The &quot;Make Love Not Spam&quot; screensaver has been temporarily pulled while Lycos deals with hosting and management issues, according to a company spokesman.