Dear CEO, you can’t lie on the internet…
September 29, 2005
… its no longer as easy as you think! Here is an excellent example of a 2–bit company trying to weasle out of something and how the Wayback Machine helps catch them. Shame on you Memletics! Hopefully you won’t be around for too long. And is that regret I hear when they say that
The publisher of Memletics.com highly recommends other publishers do not follow the original path we took to protect ebooks.
Boing Boing: DRM system designed to encourage identity-theft — UPDATED
…Someone named Sean from Memletics contacted us to let us know that this entry is “factually incorrect” because Memletics does not include addresses or full phone numbers in the personal information that’s inscribed in their books. Indeed, that is what the site says today, but the Wayback machine comes to the rescue again, providing us with yesterday’s page that we wrote about. Quick work on the part of Memletics’ webmaster, but still not so swift for consumers, who are left with their credit card information printed inside their books…. [Read]
September 29, 2005 at 4:38 pm
Utter Doul,
I’m that “CEO.” We have not denied our support page was out of date. We do assert that the ebooks the site was producing when the original article was published did not include the information the article referred to. We are attempting to work with EFF.org to further correct any concerns they still have.
See the web page below for our side of the story.
Regards,
Sean
September 29, 2005 at 4:44 pm
Here is the link (or click the poster name above)
http://www.memletics.com/support/protect.asp
September 29, 2005 at 5:02 pm
Fair enough. I’ld read your updates when I originally posted and I still think you weren’t entirely truthful. My opinion anyway, and you know how opinions are like assholes, everyone has one
In any case, I do appreciate the fact that you are actively working to sort this out rather than sit back and not give a damn what the people think. That part is commendable.