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To: GST who wrote (148136)	9/27/2002 12:31:49 PM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Read Replies (2) of 164685

" New Software Quietly Diverts Sales Commissions By JOHN SCHWARTZ and BOB TEDESCHI ome popular online services are using a new kind of software to divert sales commissions that would otherwise be paid to small online merchants by big sites like Amazon and eToys. Critics call the software parasite-ware and stealware. But the sites that use the software, which is made by nearly 20 companies and used by dozens, say that it is perfectly legal, because their users agree to the diversion. The amounts involved are estimated by those in the industry to have mounted into the hundreds of thousands of dollars and are likely to continue to grow — in part because most users are unaware that the software is operating on their computers." nytimes.com

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