I keep coming across dozens of new articles, websites, posts and comments they have the heading “Free DVD to Zune Software” somewhere in the title, only to click on it (not because I’m looking for more software for myself but rather because I’m always interested in new software for out visitors), and wouldn’t you know? Its a bunch of links to affiliate websites or direct downloads for trial software that will cost between $30 and $40 to get full use of.
Listen, I understand that people have to earn a living (why else would I have contextual ads on this site?), but it just appears a bit cheesy to me that there are so many people looking to get free advertising in this way. Here’s an example, I’m a member of TechnologyQuestions.com forum (BTW, this is a great site run by some pretty sharp people, you should check it out), I’m mostly interested in, what else? Their Zune forum located here. However, when I first visited I noticed that virtually every post was an advertisment.
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Not by management, mind you, but rather by members whom it would appear have only registered to make a few passing posts and then to start a thread with titles like, “how to convert DVD and Video to Zune” which contain links to their affiliate software, that you have to pay for, of course. They list them like so many others do with words such as “Free and Share” but all the software they list is not fully functional unless you pay.
There will always be this type of underhanded activity on the net but it it irks me sometimes and I hust had to write about it.
Rant out my Babies…
