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22 Santa Clara Computer & High Tech. L.J. 841 (2005-2006)
Sotelo v. Directrevenue, LLC: Paving the Way for Spyware-Free Internet

handle is hein.journals/sccj22 and id is 851 raw text is: SOTELO V. DIRECTREVENUE, LLC: PAVING THE
WAY FOR A SPYWARE-FREE INTERNET
Julie Anderson & David Fisht
Many    companies    and   computer   users   consider  pop-up
advertisements and Spyware an Internet scourgeI
INTRODUCTION
Consumers who wish to connect to the Internet have had to pay a
high price lately for doing so. The high price has not necessarily come
in the form of Internet connection bills, but in the form of wasted time
and diminished computer productivity that is caused from pop-up
advertisements frequently appearing on consumers' computers. A
pop-up advertisement is an advertisement that is displayed on the
user's computer through a new browser window. Because it appears
through a new browser window, the advertisement cannot be removed
unless the user interrupts his or her work to close or minimize the
display. This form of advertising has gained popularity with
advertisers, but has generated much ill-will with consumers. The pop-
up   advertisements    are   distributed   through    spyware    software
programs,' which generally track the user's Internet activity and send
a flood of these pop-up advertisements to the user's computer. These
spyware programs are often downloaded onto the computer without
the user's knowledge or consent. Once downloaded, the excessive
t Julie Anderson and David Fish are both employed at The Collins Law Firm, P.C. in
Naperville, Illinois. The Collins Law Firm is currently representing plaintiff Mr. Stephen Sotelo
in Sotelo v. DirectRevenue, LLC.
I Sotelo v. DirectRevenue, LLC, 384 F. Supp. 2d 1219, 1230 (N.D. Ill. 2005).
1. Spyware is defined as any software that covertly gathers information about a user
while he/she navigates the Internet and transmits the information to an individual or company
that uses it for marketing or other purposes. WEBSTER'S NEW MILLENNIUM DICTIONARY OF
ENGLISH, (Barbara Ann Kipfer ed., preview ed. v. 0.9.6 2005), available at
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=spyware. This article does not intend to suggest that
DirectRevenue is a spyware company. Rather, it reports on the allegations of the Sotelo
complaint that was filed in 2005.

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