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Originally Posted by Dephormation

One area missed is the exploitation of web content; the thing that makes the web so valuable in the first place is the range of information you can access.

Phorm steal that information, copy it, and use it to sell advertising. That includes stealing information from the personal websites, the niche web sites, the eCommerce web sites, the information sites.

Compared to illicit DVD copying, this is major crime... its mass copyright theft. Like walking into a library and photocopying every page of every book anyone reads, but on a nationwide scale.

I've now included this as a major point at
http://www.inphormationdesk.org/whyitswrong.htm