Business Ethics in the cable industry...

Shady Lane

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I am increasingly becoming frustrated by the lack of ethics involved with some of the people in our hobby. Recently, I found an ad here at the asylum for a product with a similar application to one I designed. This individual/business essentially â€œcut and pasteâ€ the product description and highlights from my website and incorporated it into his website and his advertising for his version of this product. Punctuation and capitalization of certain phrases were identical, with virtually no attempt made to individualize the text for his own. To makes things worse, features that arenâ€™t even possible with his product were being advertised based on my text.
On Monday I sent sending this person an e-mail expressing my disgust, and warned him to cease using the copyrighted text from my site, I received no response and saw no change in his website or ad. I sent another e-mail as a courtesy this afternoon essentially giving him until Monday to do the right thing.
Thatâ€™s the way it was going to stay until Monday. However, I went to his site tonight and viewed his â€œrenewedâ€ ad at the asylum. Changes were indeed made, but they were superficial in nature and there are still â€œword for wordâ€ descriptions I created to describe my product.
Although I highly doubt this has done anything to curtail the sales of my product, it goes against my grain to â€œlet this goâ€ as a matter of principle. I'm tired of this B.S. and am not going to put up with it any more. I hope this individual sees the light and decides to operate a clean business based on his own ideas and merit.
My frustration is obvious, and Iâ€™m becoming increasingly disappointed at some of the business ethics Iâ€™m encountering in our hobby. I wish this was an isolated instance, but it is not.
I am giving this company/individual one final chance to clean-up before I identify them for all...
Best,
Chris VenHaus

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Topic - Business Ethics in the cable industry... - ChrisVH 21:12:32 03/09/05 (7)

Isn't that an oxymoron? - WildWest 14:57:11 03/13/05 (3)

Uh, oh, now you've offended the Cable Medrassa Enforcement Squad - jmikes 06:39:29 03/14/05 (2)

Re: Uh, oh, now you've offended the Cable Medrassa Enforcement Squad - ChrisVH 09:36:20 03/14/05 (1)

"If you'd rather attack the cable industry than condemn an obvious wrongdoing, then go for it..." - jmikes 11:03:17 03/14/05 (0)

Re: Business Ethics in the cable industry... - Mudcat 03:10:38 03/10/05 (1)

You're right- it's Donald Uptegraff of HIDEFAUDIO - ChrisVH 06:59:02 03/10/05 (0)

Re: Business Ethics in the cable industry... - oofer 23:05:07 03/09/05 (0)

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