Autohomepage script legal advise

[WN]

I've seen this script for sale on a site which changes the homepage of the surfer to one of your choice. Is this legal? I do not want to buy the expensive script and then get into legal trouble for using it. I want to set the homepage to a non-adult webpage that I have started. Will that be any problem legally?

[Angel11]

Legally no, morally yes

[rukbunker]

buying that script is stupid.. go the unconfirmed cheater section. Check the post of people who r checking every site, to see if they do something which they don't, and and copy the script from the source

[Sticks]

Angel, you say that with some authority. Technically the script is a hack as it allows the browser to change the computer's registry. I'm surpised that no sponsors have banned it so far. Unfortunately, the truth of the matter seems to be that the forced bookmark traffic seems to be productive, well as far as I can tell from the couple of trades that I have with such sites.

[WN]

Anyone know for sure its legally okay? I dont want to go to prison or pay up my annual income in fine..

[XP]

I don't think its legally forbidden. Its a Microsoft Java Virtual Machine feature, and microsoft made it. Then see results (nice job of a guy from israel hehe) and made a critical patch for this (updating Microsoft JVM). You can see this patch on windowsupdate.microsoft.com

But if you use that shit, sure to place on "Possible cheaters" board. And no one works with you.

[kanga]

suppose Apache has a security bug, and they release a patch, i'm sure exploiting the bug is not legal... and the bug itself can't really be called a "feature" ...

kanga

[rukbunker]

undocumented feature http://bbs.adultwebmasterinfo.com/ubb/smile.gif

[WN]

Isnt it something like cookies, sort of? Writing something to a person's harddisk, without damaging anything. Does cause a bit of annoyance though. But I'm not changing it to an adult site, so they can't say I was forcing their children to view pornographic content.

So if someone finds this at my site, goes to court, what might happen? I still havent seen a purely legal answer to this.

[manga]

A funny thing happened when I went to Hotmail one day... Microsoft's messenger was installed and started to appear on my taskbar at startup and there were a bunch of MSN bookmarks added to my favourites. I'd say that vulnerability was put there by Microsoft on purpose. Anyway, if Microslop is using it I doubt it's illegal.

[Igor]

If you want the script contact me and i will give it to you http://bbs.adultwebmasterinfo.com/ubb/smile.gif I don't use the scirpt, I think its a bad idea to use it but if you want icq me: 77841730

[toker]

Many dont understand what is really legal or illegal and this script could be considered hacking by definition of law depending on how its used. If the scirpt were to lets say conflict with some other software on a users computer and damage the system your fucked.

If i was working on a special project and this data was lost due to such an exploit you would be in a heap of shit for destroying data on my system intentonally or not.

Now for those of you who run adult sites and these lame scripts you face the same legal reprecussion as you are destroying data in a sence and forcing me to look at porn. If you had no legal disclaimer and forced a 6yr old into your adult site you can believe it would be considered illegal. Its entrapment and the very reason many sites have enter/exit links on main pages.

Then you must undestand porn is illegal in some city/states of the US. If microsux did such a thing im shure it was not done thru a web page but rather a software bundle your installed. Then again microsux has billions to pay lawyers and lagal fees i doubt anyone on here could do that.

I really cant wait till the lawsuits begin against all these adult webmasters doing this shit. I guess then we eliminate some of the cheating assholes and all the 15yr old kiddies builing the banner farms...

My advice "dont use it"!!

[candidpublishinginc]

ICQ always posts a bookmark on my favorites. I hate that.

[Anubis]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Igor:
If you want the script contact me and i will give it to you http://bbs.adultwebmasterinfo.com/ubb/smile.gif I don't use the scirpt, I think its a bad idea to use it but if you want icq me: 77841730</font>

igor whats your email addy??

[Angel11]

Sticks:
What I ment by that was that there is nothing illegal about autobookmarking scripts (There Should BE) but it is morally wrong and anyone with good business ethics wouldnt do it.
Your surfers shoud have the choice of bookmarking or not, hell 90% of the sites that autobookmark suck major ass anyways thats why that have to autobookmark cause its the only way to get you to come back.

[manga]

Microslop installed that crap on my computer not by way of some software I installed but through hotmail. The way I know it did is I don't allow activex scripts normally to be run by a website, so when I went to hotmail and signed up for a new email account a prompt asked me if I wanted to allow the website to run some activex scripts and since it was Microslop I figured it was probably just a flash banner or something like that so I allowed it, and then BANG! I had MSN messenger and a bunch of MSN bookmarks for good measure as well. Thanks Bill http://bbs.adultwebmasterinfo.com/ubb/smile.gif