Originally Posted by Jim (Post 307831)

That's the thing, how do you prove they know about it? Sure, once a list is gathered, they have been warned. But until then, you never know the truth. That is, unless you are stupid and admit to it by saying we had to do it to compete. At first look, it looked as though netflix was stealing traffic that bestbuy bought a commercial for. But, after further investigation, it seems maybe netflix knew nothing about it. I truthfully think the only winners in this thing is zango.

Webmasters and sponsors both are going to be hurt before this is over. I have said this in private and I will say it now...the answer is to build a better mousetrap. We already know how to tell if a surfer has the toolbar installed. It can't be hard to do something with these surfers knowing that. Hell, just redirecting these people with the toolbar to a page letting them know they have adware and how to uninstall it will help greatly. Not to mention a decent programmer that can write a program that will disable the toolbar.

After reading a list of the investors, we are the proverbial David fighting Goliath. We need to work smarter, not harder.