Amazon Caught Deleting Negative EA DRM-Related Reviews… Again
You probably remember the uproar that surrounded the release of Spore, where plenty of people were pissed off at EA’s decision to use draconian DRM and made their feelings known via thousands of 1-star...
View ArticleUsing Amazon To Protest Products You Don't Like
The main thing that kicked off all the negative attention over EA’s use of SecuROM DRM in Spore was the avalanche of negative reviews on Amazon. It seems consumers are beginning to recognize that such...
View ArticleTelco Astroturfing Tries To Bring Down Reviews Of Susan Crawford's Book
Astroturfing — the process of a faux “grassroots” effort, often set up by cynical and soulless DC lobbyists pretending to create a “grassroots” campaign around some subject — is certainly nothing new....
View ArticleTelco Astroturfing Or Elaborate Double-Reverse Sabotage Fakeout? You Decide
You may recall that we recently wrote about the likelihood of telco astroturfing on professor Susan Crawford’s book, Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age. If...
View ArticleComedic Artistry In Amazon Reviews
One of the more interesting things about the rise of the internet is how it inspires creativity and artwork in unexpected places. For example: the rise of Amazon reviews as a work of art. This...
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