Phil Leigh;473012 Wrote: > What a ridiculous piece of "legislation"... to which I am fortunately > immune ... :-)
We've had something similar in the EU (not quite so explicit but the intended effect is the same) for some time, care of the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive. It contains a general ban on unfair or misleading advertising practices including falsely or misleading representing that your only connection to a company is as a consumer. In the UK the Directive is enacted by the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations and includes a specific prohibition on "misleading conduct" which is theoretically wide enough to include failing to mention that you have received a free piece of hardware from a company. However, there is also de minimis requirement i.e. the behaviour must be likely materially to distort or be likely to materially distort the average consumer's economic behaviour. A more sensible way to approach things IMHO. -- Siduhe Who am I on 'LAST.FM' (http://www.last.fm/user/siduhe)? "-Siduhe Loved Tracks radio got the thumbs up. Feedback included: yeah, it's good... got the odd dodgy track tho...-" (c) 'ModelCitizen' (http://www.last.fm/user/Modelcitizen) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Siduhe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=723 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=69819 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
