Observation:

The crappier the software the more goofy the name e.g. zango or the latest iteration - Platrium…I thought only drug companies did this! (Put an X here and Z there and push it through testing…okay Bob)

CARNAGE

It just goes on and on and on…see some random date in 2006 or a more frequent rant. (see  below)

…So long and thanks for all the fish. I doubt the FTC will do much about Platrium, but it does sound like a drug so maybe the FDA might get involved. This is proof positive that people really don’t like garbage on their computer. No matter what kind of “value proposition” you think you have. I enjoyed the steel cage matches.

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PhailScale Score: 7

Ken Smith even dropped in to give me a good beating…HI Ken!

Ken Smith Says:
When I realize that this is what passes for reasoned discourse amongst Zango’s sharpest critics, it gives me a great deal of hope that Zango is on exactly the right path. Criticism this inane should surely be interpreted as high praise.

Ken Smith (former Zango CTO and still Zango cheerleader)

Naturally being friendly I gave him my own take.

Ken,

When did you get the idea the post was a conversation? I ended conversations long based on Zango’s HISTORY…which is well documented and frankly quite lacking. I mean get real…you need some movies or jpgs, etc?

Nothing personal- but I do not care for Zango…I am hardly your sharpest critic…the model “sounds” good…but Zango never had or really tried to control the distribution base. Proof in the pudding.

For the record- people should have the right to download zango (if there is reasonable and obvious consent not some “sendkeys” attack…why they would seek it out is beyond me…

-Wayne

How About a Dose of Facts?

Kung-fu forces cannot keep paperghost away and more boards go flying….check this piece out in computerworld

“Adware vendor Zango profits from pirated movies, says researcher…

August 18, 2008 (Computerworld) Adware company Zango Inc. profits from copyright infringement, a Harvard University researcher charged today, after the company claimed that sites serving up links to pirated movies were operating within its rules when the sites pressed users to install Zango’s software.

The sites, Movietvonline.com and Bestcinemaonline.com, list dozens of recent movies and popular TV shows, including the recent blockbuster The Dark Knight. That was the film that caught the eye of Chris Boyd, the director of malware research for FaceTime Communications Inc., who last week said he had spotted Zango installation prompts on both sites.

“They want you to agree to install Zango in order to view whole movies, some streamed on the movietvonline site from other sources, others in the form of broken up downloads hosted on file-downloading sites,” said Boyd in a post to the FaceTime security blog last week.

…here are some of the inner goodies paperghost nailed. Pirated Movies! What a value proposition.

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