“But instead I also got this other program, and very soon I had a talking monkey running around my screen. “I did a custom download and only elected to get KaZaA,” he said. So after carefully downloading KaZaA - the most popular file-sharing program on the Web with 90 million copies requested so far this year - Pierce was not amused when his new BonziBUDDY showed up, too. Years of heavy Internet use have taught him to read the fine print most consumers ignore when they install free programs on their PCs.
Free Software is the Lure, Online Surveillance is the RealityĮliot Pierce, a product manager for a large online media company, scours the World Wide Web each day for music files, games and flashy new freeware utilities.
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