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Originally Posted by vicz
Well I am also a website owner!
I think that for most web content it is 'published' and you don't really have a say about what is done to the content - I may buy the Daily Mail just to wrap my chips in for example! Certainly there is a good case for implied consent if the content is available for anyone to view. BUT firstly I don't believe this applies to certain types of content from eg webmail and password protected forums, and secondly I hate the idea of the cookie mangling, which is firstly likely to cause all kind of problems that they haven't anticipated yet, and secondly is not playing by www standards and spirit which is ultimately likely to cause problems for everyone.
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Couple of problems with that statement. Firstly, if your buy your Daily Mail and put your chips in it, Daily Mail still get their money, you don't steal the news paper. Secondly, opinion doesn't really matter, law states informed consent which means it has to be explicit. The rights being breached are inalienable rights and therefore cannot be assumed to be waved under any circumstances.
Whether or not you like the idea of Phorm doesn't make it legal. As it stands Phorm is in my opinion and many respected legal experts, illegal, and therefore needs to be stopped. It is plain and simple.
Oh and also, buying the Daily Mail doesn't give you the right to copy it in order to use for commercial purposes (or any other purposes for that matter) the AP are very quick to shout copyright foul in the courts. Even their own journalists are not permitted to use something they have published in the AP for other commercial ventures. Read up on the AP you will have quite a surprise at how anal they are.
Alexander Hanff
---------- Post added at 10:44 ---------- Previous post was at 10:26 ----------
OK Folks, time to start writing to Best Buy who just bought 50% of Carphone Warehouse (which I presume means Talk Talk too).
Alexander Hanff