GoogleGuy - 5:27 am on Jan 23, 2002 (gmt 0)

Chiyo, we try to stay away from censorship if at all possible. People are actively searching for these music sharing programs. It's just a shame that the programs come with such nasty stuff hidden inside.

rcjordan, I agree that we need more hard numbers about scumware. Here's what I can tell you:
- there are over 3 million downloads per week of music-sharing programs with scumware bundled in
- these programs occupied fully half of the top tech "buzz" searches on CNET earlier this month: [cnet.com...]
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- we get pop-up complaints every day from users, and I'd guess that there's a hundred users for every person that writes in.

Has anybody here run into the problem? It's hit a lot of people I know, but I'm curious if other people have run into this.