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Scumware Advisory - Informational warning about the unethical practice of placing commercial links through third party software.
 
Scumware Stealing Your Traffic and Revenue - Portal News article about the fight against unauthorized ad link insertion.
 
Scumware may be changing every web site you visit - Explanation of contextual advertising aimed at users. Encourages removal of the programs from user's computer.
 
Search Engine Watch: Forget Smart Tags; TopText Is Doing What You Feared - Editorial decrying stealth download tactics, copyright and other legal violations.
 
SitePoint Tribune: Internet Highway Robbery - Examines Gator and TopText and their effects on web sites.
 
Slashdot: Don't Eat the Yellow Links - Web owners upset by changed content; describes an "opt-out" procedure.
 
StopScum - Resources, news and forums for the fight against contextual advertising.
 
Take Back the Web - Provides redirection script that sends visitors using eZula's Top Text or Surf+ to an information page.
 
Thief Ad Buyers - Maintains a list of companies observed to be advertising through eZula, HotText, or TopText.
 
ThiefWare.com - Information and resources primarily for webmasters who wish to fight unethical contextual advertising.
 
Time To Fight Back - Careful summary of ethical and legal ways to fight eZula.
 
TrafficG Yellow and Green Link Killer - Provides script to disable Top Text and Surf+. Documents source code alterations made by these programs.
 
WebHostingTalk Forums: KaZaa is Hijacking Traffic! - Webmasters and surfers, mostly disapproving of the embedded advertising links.
 
Whirly Wiry Web: Fighting Ezula - Discussion of web design to detect and defeat contextual advertising, including recognizing the HotText and TopText plugins.
 
You got the yellow linking Virus? - Gives info on how to remove/unistall TopText, and gives links to other more detailed resources.
 
ZDNet: Can networks harness P2P for profit? - Article regarding the controversy of peer to peer file sharing programs distributing programs like eZula's Top Text.
 
ZDNet: Smart tabby tags TopText hyperlinks - Discusses the controversy with emphasis on the threat of being able to place ads on competitor's web sites.
 
c|net Tech News: Chorus of Gator critics grows - Article on Interactive Advertising Bureau's possible regulatory complaint over Gator's ad insertion. Also discusses Top Text and the effort against it.
 
c|net Tech News: Peer-to-peer exchanges court advertisers - Article describing the financial arrangements, briefly mentioning the controversy.
 
eZula // Kazaa Yellow Link Infection - Information for surfers: the TopText browser plugin, identifies companies advertising through it, and supports a consumer boycott.
 
 
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