Re: Search400 blackmail?

[Pete Hall <pbhall@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 14:10 12/15/1999 , Tim McCarthy wrote:
>I'd be interested in any other software vendors opinion of this item
>received from Search400. Bear in mind that our company is a search400
>customer - we place banner ads with them. Does this not sound like a
>form of blackmail?
>
> >Before we begin to accept these orders, we want to offer you the
> >opportunity to lock up the keywords for the name of your company and
> >products.  We've developed a special vendor keyword package where you
> >can buy your company name and three of your company's product names for
> >only $250 per month. This special is effective until December 31st.

It does indeed. It would be very interesting to learn the implications of 
copyright on this policy. This certainly doesn't improve my opinion of 
search400's ethics.

Pete Hall
pbhall@execpc.com
http://www.execpc.com/~pbhall
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