O G Y Sponsored by Ericsson phones and accessories . That's a lot of assets. Davis speculates that RealNetworks may have been getting ready to sell their customer information to someone like BMG Music Club, and not informing its customers ahead of time was no accident. He said it was only using the data in a cumulative way, to track things like the fact that 20 million people have recorded CDs with the software. Hardie added he doesn't think the music industry will necessarily be as aggressive about data collection as other Internet business categories since consumer confidence is key to music sales.
Some sites are even willing to pay cash upfront for the right to track Web surfers' movements.
Green Witch tracks people through Web server logs, where there is an IP address for every file that the user looked at. But he said the company would never sell that information. Send it . Use this version. E-mail this to a friend.