Remember the student who sued Amazon.com after it deleted his annotated copy of George Orwell’s 1984 from his Kindle? Amazon subsequently offered to re-deliver the e-books to users’ Kindles with any notes,, or in the alternative, provide them with a $30 coupon to be used for futher purchases, but the lawsuit filed by Justin Gawronski…
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Drivers’ details sold by DVLA are used in roadside adverts for Castrol
Christopher Leake reports: The Government’s controversial Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency has launched an investigation into how the car registrations of millions of motorists were sold for use by a giant oil firm. Castrol spent hundreds of thousands of pounds on a campaign promoting its oils, using giant advertising billboards on five major routes in…
BPI alerts BT to 100,000 suspected illegal downloaders
Carrie-ann Skinner reports: BT has been given 100,000 IP addresses belonging to BT broadband customers suspected of illegally filesharing. According to the BPI, which provided BT with the addresses, the ISP has not yet acted on the information. Geoff Taylor, CEO of the BPI, told the Daily Mirror: “It’s shameful for a company like BT…
Those unwanted terrifying emails were from…. Toyota?
Over on Courthouse News, Tim Hull reports that an advertising firm and Toyota are being sued because an advertising campaign terrorized an email recipient: A woman says a “terror marketing” campaign that Saatchi & Saatchi created for Toyota made her believe a drunken English soccer hooligan with a pit bull would show up at her…