Linked by Kroc Camen on Tue 20th Oct 2009 16:11 UTC
"In the discussion about the best way to manage the Mozilla trademarks, the problem of sites charging people to download Firefox is often mentioned. However, not everyone has come across such a site. For your ediification, I present 'A Tour Of A "Pay to Download Firefox" Site', with detailed analysis and screenshots. You'll be pleased to hear we have recently been having some success using trademark law with preliminary injunctions and domain name disputes against such sites."
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This behaviour is forced by the strong misbelief that "the computer will know what he does". Furthermore, there seem to be people who judge the computer's "intelligence" higher than their own one's (allthoug their own intelligence must be high as a mountain because they own a computer); the PC isn't only personalized, it's personified, and that's why it's an authority that you have to trust. Of course, there's no difference between the PC, the Internet, a website, the desktop and "Explorer"...
No, seriously. If the computer says: "Enter your credit card number here", there are lots of people willing to enter their credit card number here, just to see the dancing elephants or the squeaking squirrels.
It hasn't need to be a browser download. It can be a "free" service that does a pupil's homework, lets mommy download cookie recipes and daddy to play a nice game of poker. This has to be done *now*, so entering some personal data is done very fast, but the contract ("by signing in to our service, you enter a 6 months contract with 15,99 Euro per month, to be paid right after signing in" or the like) isn't even read. Afterwards, "victims" start crying out loud in german TV shows.
The most important thing is that thinking (or just plain reading) takes time. Users don't have time. They want the result, and they want it now. It is that simple.