Lawsuit against creators of fake Windows dialogs advertisement

[Refalm]

Read the humorous article here.

[choasforages]

GO GO GO GO!!!!
a lawyer can cuase more suffering then any mortal ever could

[xyle_one]

quote:  The suit seeks to enjoin Bonzi from sending such ads in the future. It also asks for punitive relief, including $500 to every person who was received a deceptive ad from the company, and for the company to pay $5 for every banner it has delivered with the warning messages.

funny. too bad i dont get to recieve the $500.

[pkd_lives]

What is this thing you call "pop...up"..."flashing alert banner ad"... you meant there is software out there that is doing things you know nothing about..why don't they just read the source code and see what the program they purchased does?

[Annorax]

shit... looks like i get to make a couple thousand dollars - that fuckin thing was the banner ad my yahoo pool league had to suffer through for the last six months... so does anyone know how to join this suit?

[DJ]

Another example of how class action lawsuits are good for lawyers and not the other parties involved. How many of us would actually believe we would get anything back for the immeasureable pop-ups we have gotten? But if they win, of course the lawyers get their cut off the top.

Dj

[TheQuirk]

quote:Originally posted by The Rev. Annorax:
shit... looks like i get to make a couple thousand dollars - that fuckin thing was the banner ad my yahoo pool league had to suffer through for the last six months... so does anyone know how to join this suit?

http://www.lukins.com/bonzi/

[jtpenrod]

quote:At the center of the Bonzi lawsuit are ads that pop up or appear on Web sites and carry messages that include the words "Security Alert," "Message Alert" or "Warning." One such banner reads: "Your computer is currently broadcasting an Internet IP Address. With this address someone can immediately begin attacking your computer." If surfers click on the X to close the banner, they're delivered to Bonzi's Web site.

So that's what those things are! I've seen plenty of them, however, I run Linux, and I know what a KDE dialog box is suppose to look like. These Bonzi ad boxes look like a Winderz idiot box. So I wasn't fooled at all. Nor do I need to worry about security problems either. I never bothered to click on one to see what it was.

quote:The suit seeks to enjoin Bonzi from sending such ads in the future. It also asks for punitive relief, including $500 to every person who was received a deceptive ad from the company, and for the company to pay $5 for every banner it has delivered with the warning messages.

Another lost opportunity. I guess i don't get that $500 as I never clicked on it.

F'kin' Linux!   :mad:  
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[Calum]

quote:

I can seriously say that i would never be fooled into clicking this even in windows. but with phoenix bloxking popups, i will never see it.

what sort of pillock clicks these anyway?

good luck to the lawyers and all that, but really.

when i saw the header of this thread, i at first thought it was microsoft taking bonzi to court for copying their patented dialogue box format! now that would be funny...

[jtpenrod]

quote:what sort of pillock clicks these anyway?

You obviously don't use Winderz. Winderz, esp. XP, has all sorts of wizards and idiot boxes popping up all the time. So it gets to be kind of a Pavlovian response: show a Windrez-looking idiot box, and most Win users will click on it without thinking.
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[Kintaro]

Lets go and click them and make $500

[Doogee]

hey since im an aussie that would mean about $1000 for me!

[Kintaro]

Yea me to.

[Pissed_Macman]

Here's an example of supreme stupidity: at my school we use mostly iMacs running 8.6 and there was this one guy who fell for those banner ads every single time, even though they looked like Windows.

[Refalm]

I saw another one on Yahoo! today:



This clearly doesn't point to Windows NT/9