This is probably a good time for me to remind people about:
http://www.noamazon.com
... and also to point out that
Amazon now thinks that your personal
details are something that they're allowed to sell.
Actually they haven't. What they've said is that if they sell off
part of the company - say DVD sales - that the purchaser will
also get the customer details. Not really a big suprise.
Personally, I think noamazon is full of it. In America, you take out
patents on pretty much anything you think you can get away with.
You then threaten other people with legal action in an attempt to
get them to pay you some money in order to avoid the costs of
legal action. It's basically a protection racket. Normally it
doesn't take long for someone else to tell em to stick it, at
which point it goes to court, the patent is overturned and
everyone's happy.
If you have a problem with that kind of business practise, you
really need to start boycotting a darn site more companies
than
Amazon. You really need to include pretty much every
company that competes in the west. Certainly all the big ones,
and I'd definitely include Sony in that list.
See ya,
Adam
