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Re: [Full-Disclosure] If Lycos can attack spammer sites, can we all start doing it?

From: Kyle Maxwell (krmaxwellgmail.com)
Date: Thu Dec 02 2004 - 08:48:18 CST

On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 03:47:06 +0000, n3td3v <xploitablegmail.com> wrote:
> Thought:
> Hey, thanks for the insight. I can't see Lycos introducing the
> screensaver without talking with legal teams first, so surely we can
> presume everything is legal and above board?! Otherwise, why would
> Lycos want to put themselves in a legal tangle? Unless they weighed up
> the legal costs against the profit they would make from the PR stunt,
> from which all I can see, is all this whole thing appears to be.

It's entirely possible that their lawyers cleared it but that doesn't
necessarily make it really above board; if lawyers always agreed on
what was allowed, we wouldn't have so many corporate lawsuits. :) They
may be standing on the principle of "these are just a bunch of website
visits" without taking into account the fact that there's a stated
intent beyond just visiting the sites.

This is probably going to get a lot messier for Lycos before it's all over.

--
Kyle Maxwell
[krmaxwellgmail.com]

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