Links: Chinese protest in an online game, inside an adware operation

• Online games as a place for Chinese to protest
  From ESWN (東南西北) blog. The article doesn't describe the comments that accompany the mass of players, but you can just make them out in the screenshots -- anti-Japanese curses ("Where are the Japanese dogs?", "Thousand deaths to Japan"), "represents" ("Representing Sichuan") and even a Chinese reporter announcing his/her presence. More evidence of how the Internet can confound Chinese mass media controls. An MMO game game becomes the site of an online anti-Japanese demonstration for thousands of Chinese players.


• The Plot To Hijack Your Computer
  Business Week analysis of an adware operation. Note the seat-of-the-pants content analysis of the hate mail that one company, Direct Revenue, receives (second paragraph). I'm not worried about adware or spyware -- I use a Mac, and as far as I know, most of these programs are designed for Windows machines.