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We counted 318 children’s television programs currently airing on English language networks in the United States. We decided to sear…

Okay, I’ll admit I meant to follow up on my post about WarnerBros partnering with Zango, but it just completely slipped my mind until now, when I ran into a post on digg.com about it. And boy is it an…

I’ll tell you what. I’ll introduce you to my little brother in college. He fixes computers. It usually takes two or three times at US$100-US$150 per repair (according to him), but I literally watched one parent drag every single one of their kids one visit. That parent then told them to listen (to my brother, the tech) and after he was done said “If this happens again, the computer will be disconnected from the Internet, the high speed will be canceled, and it will be formatted and reloaded with nobody’s stuff being saved. Got it?”

Kids and older people who don’t know crap about computers are the primary victims of adware. Kids will believe that things are really “free” (and they aren’t) despite the warnings. Click-through EULA’s don’t help either. I don’t believe that your standard TV requires installation either.

This bull is why standard TV will NOT go away. Karl, you and JR are just helping to perpetuate the culture of lies. 180Solutions software, in many cases, cannot be uninstalled without using a 3rd party utility!

Basically, if this is the future, get ready for your TV to crash.

This is the future, JR is right. Free movies, tv shows, and games are what people want. If they did not, companies like 180 (and NBC, ABC, FOX, CNN, MTV, …) would all be out of business already unlike the movie studios which are trying really hard to find a way for people to continue to pay.

I’m sure one person out on the net knows how to use the ad ware to suck out some good films that we can get for free, after all that’s what the 180 software do, installing back doors to your system.

Welcome to the 21st century - or maybe you are still in the 20th century - adware is what made network TV free for the last 70 or so years, and if you don’t like the ads, then you turn off the TV and read a book.

The difference is a TV advertisement won’t crash my TV. Adware has an annoying tendency to be poorly written and crash computers. Oh and 180 games are similar to bejeweled and such from what I’ve seen. My friend’s mom trashed the computer he gave her to use in two months with 180.Zango.Cash downloads.

Can you use a standard BitTorrent client where you can see what’s going on or something they force you to use with limited visibility on what’s going on.

I too wonder about what sort of games were being distributed by 180Solutions.