Friday, January 31, 2003
Oh this is funny.Camarades, the webcam community I use to host my webcam is taking myowncam (a cam community I've also used in the past) to court, claiming myowncam sent emails via the Camarades users cam pages, to entice them onto their own service.
Well hah!
I can't comment on the validity of this claim, but I do know this, after a long time of being totally free, Camarades changed their policy, put stupidly oversized popups onto their users pages, and made it impossible for users to view any other cams without paying for full membership. Obviously, a LOT of their users, myself included were unimpressed with this, and went looking for alternative webcam hosting.
Now... I run a webcam community portal page that's listed number one on google when searching for webcam communities, and on that page, I list myowncam rather highly. Small wonder people moved to myowncam from Camarades in their droves.
The situation as it stands now though is somehwat different from what it was. Camarades have seen the error in their ways and gone back to being free, while myowncam is suffering serious server downtime and slowdowns, so users like myself have gone back to Camarades.
Still... I intend to offer my support to the people running myowncam, as Camarades heavy handed tactics, which they've displayed before, being all too ready to take smaller entities to court to maintain their position in the webcam communities arena, are to me somewhat uncalled for.
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Steve 6:25 PM [+]
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