Row Brews Over P2P Advertising 185
KennyMillar writes "BBC News Online is reporting that advertisers are starting to place ads on P2P networks, because they are so popular. But the owners of paid-for download services are accusing them of "providing 'oxygen' for companies that support illegal downloading.""
With Bittorrent ads are easy........ (Score:3, Informative)
Suprnova.org has been doing this for a while.
And who's advertising on Suprnova.org??
Well, since I'm in Canada I keep seeing ads for the famous U.S. Greencard Lottery (yes - just like the first spam on the Internet.....) and for Zip.ca.
Zip.ca is an online DVD rental company like NetFlix.com - but Zip.ca has side banners on Suprnova.org
I think they also have pop-ups but I'm not sure since I have pop-up blocking on
Re:Pfff (Score:3, Informative)
As a matter of fact...
In England at the time of the automobiles debut the horse and carriage industry was so dismayed that they forced a law though parliament that required anyone who was driving an automobile at the time to have someone walking in front carrying a red lantern.
Of course the law itself was cloaked in a lot of sanctimonious bs about safety. But obviously it's real reason was clear, to make the option of driving an automobile so horribly inconvenient that nobody would buy them.
Well obviously this set England's own automotive technology back and eventually was repealed after it became clear that the automobile was here to stay. Still goes to show that history has a way of repeating itself.
Re:Router Host Blocking (Score:1, Informative)
I had Doubleclick blocked company wide for some time. Once they started doing this I got a number of complaints. Packetsniffing showed redirects to doubleclick.