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	ThiefWare.com - http://www.thiefware.com/ Information and resources primarily for webmasters who wish to fight unethical contextual advertising.
	Foistware - http://www.cexx.org/toptext.htm Information to help users and webmasters identify when Top Text is installed.
	Protect Your Web Site from Unwanted Linking - http://www.unwantedlinks.com/ Explains how the eZula system works and provides resources that allow users to remove it and to help web site owners protect their sites from unwanted advertising insertion.
	Salon.com: The parasite economy - http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/08/02/parasite_capital/index.html Examines the spread of both "spyware" and programs that add commercial links to websites. KaZaa's distribution of eZula is heavily featured.
	Whirly Wiry Web: Fighting Ezula - http://www.whirlywiryweb.com/q/ezula.asp Discussion of web design to detect and defeat contextual advertising, including recognizing the HotText and TopText plugins.

	PetitionOnline: eZula - http://www.petitiononline.com/toptext/ Petition protesting insertion of advertising links on web pages.
	Slashdot: Don't Eat the Yellow Links - http://slashdot.org/features/01/07/31/2015216.shtml Web owners upset by changed content; describes an "opt-out" procedure.
	Search Engine Watch: Forget Smart Tags; TopText Is Doing What You Feared - http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=2164091 Editorial decrying stealth download tactics, copyright and other legal violations.
	COTSE: You may have heard of Microsoft Smart Tags, but have you seen Ezula and Surf+? - http://www.cotse.com/8202001.html A webmaster's editorial accusing TopText and Intelsoft International's Surf+ of theft, false advertising, and deceptive self-promotion.
	StopScum - http://www.stopscum.com/ Resources, news and forums for the fight against contextual advertising.

	c|net Tech News: Chorus of Gator critics grows - http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-272244.html 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 - http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-271020.html Article describing the financial arrangements, briefly mentioning the controversy.
	Ethics in Advertising - http://www.rubak.com/article.cfm?ID=13 Editorial asking "How far should advertising go?" Examines eZula's browser plug in as a specific example of unethical advertising.
	You got the yellow linking Virus? - http://www.funs.co.uk/virus/ Gives information on how to remove/unistall TopText, and links to other more detailed resources.
	Associate Programs Newsletter: How to stop Scumware from defacing your website - http://www.associateprograms.com/search/newsletter173.shtml Explains how Top Text and similar programs can negatively affect income streams, particularly for sites that use affiliate programs.

	Mystery links: New Web advertising tool gets results, draws criticism - http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/07/30/BU231339.DTL San Francisco Chronicle: mentions concerns about the ethics of covert advertising, and commercial firms outraged by links to competitors' sites.
	PCWorld: Latest Online Ad Gimmick: Hyperlinks - http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,57064,00.asp "Advertisers try aggressive (and annoying) hyperlink technology to make the Web pay."
	TrafficG Yellow and Green Link Killer - http://www.trafficg.com/scumware/index.htm Provides script to disable Top Text and Surf+. Documents source code alterations made by these programs.
	Applelinks: Another New Technology to Deep-Six - http://www.applelinks.com/articles/2001/08/20010803142336.shtml Editorial suggesting "loud, pointed, organized protests" against this attempt to "take over your web pages."
	WebHostingTalk Forums: KaZaa is Hijacking Traffic! - http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?threadid=18027&perpage=20&pagenumber=1 Webmasters and surfers, mostly disapproving of the embedded advertising links.

	geek/talk Forums at GeekVillage - http://www.geekvillage.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=12175 Discussion about the eZula TopText defacement in the context of copyright violation.
	San Diego Daily Transcript: 'Poachware' Routes Computer Users To Alternate Web Sites - http://www.sddt.com/Search/article.cfm?SourceCode=20010827tba Article about anti-competitive involuntary hyperlinks being placed by Top Text (aka ContextPro).
	eZula and Surf+ Script Killer - http://www.searchking.com/ezulakiller/ Provides a script killer for the eZula software. Also works on Surf+.

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