Saturday, February 08, 2003
As reported recently in this blog, the Camarades webcam community were taking the MyOwnCam webcam community to court over alleged abuse of the camarades email system, using it to lure users away from Camarades and onto MyOwnCam.Well, it seems they came to an out of court settlement, though from the perspective of webcam users who'd like a little choice in what comminuty they use, it's really not much of a settlement at all. Basicly, MyOwnCam have handed all control of their site over to Camarades. I'm not sure if Camarades will make any actual use of their new aquisition, but having just visited the site, it seems they're simply shutting the operation down. The site still exists, but there are no active cams.
It makes me rather sad, as though MyOwnCam did have server load issues, it's always good to see new sites appearing to fill a space in the market when the big boys get greedy. That being said, it was pretty stupid of them to use such easilly combatted tactics, though I do wonder where they'd have stood legally had the case actually gone to court.
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Steve 1:16 PM [+]
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