June 9, 2004 2:52 PM PDT

Claria sues L.L.Bean

Adware maker Claria has sued L.L.Bean, charging the retailer with filing a frivolous lawsuit against its advertisers. Claria, formerly known as Gator, filed the complaint last week in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. The Redwood City, Calif.-based company is firing back at L.L.Bean after it logged four complaints in Portland, Maine, district court in recent weeks against Atkins Nutritionals, J.C. Penny, Nordstrom and Gevalia Kaffee.

The four companies allegedly violated L.L.Bean's trademarks when they used Claria's software to deliver pop-up ads over its own Web site, according to the complaint. Claria, which is seeking punitive damages, has countered that L.L.Bean's action is baseless because some of the defendants are not current advertisers. L.L.Bean is also one of several companies that have sued Claria and is part of an ongoing, separate multi-district litigation case. Claria, which has filed for an initial public offering, makes advertising software called adware that tracks Web surfing behavior to deliver relevant ads. It bundles its software with free, popular downloads.

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Put Adware and Spyware Executives in Jail
Spyware and Scumware vendors like GATOR/GAIN/CLARIA are scum of the internet and should be outlawed, their executive should be put on a CHAIN GANG since they commit more crimes than some that are in prison now.

This company is simply a gang of computer hackers that really thinks they have a chance in the marketplace of legitimate advertising, what an insult to the computing users of the world.

We study scumware vendors like CLARIA/GATOR/GAIN AND THEIR LIKES look at <a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.searchwars.squarespace.com" target="_newWindow">http://www.searchwars.squarespace.com</a> and you will find many pages that look at spyware, adware, scumware and scumball executives that are a plague on computer users worldwide.

Please let Mr. Gates know of your desire for security and privacy so that Microsoft will take to heart this issue and build privacy and security into the OS of the future. Transmission of page views to third parties is unacceptable under any circumstances, to hell with ADWARE and the tracking that goes along with it.

Support Senator Burns (MT) new spyware bill, you will see this mentioned in the lawmakers page in the above URL, contact his office and offer your support for his SPYWARE BILL.
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