Comments on: A Push For Transparency And Open Dialogue

By: Concerned Citizen

Concerned Citizen — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 02:18:11 +0000

Another issue I see with digitalsignage.com is potential copyright infringement. Reproducing small amounts of someone else’s work for certain non-commercial uses is normally OK but copying huge chunks of someone else’s work and reproducing it on your site is not. For example, did he have permission to copy and reproduce seven large paragraphs from partner up’s email in his blog entry dated 10/23 (which I will not link to here because that just helps his SEO efforts!)?

Clearly ‘reusing’ large chunks of other people’s hard work is a great way to improve you search engine rankings but under copyright law it’s almost certainly an infringement of someone else’s copyright.

I suggest that anyone whose copyrighted work has been used in this manner take action to have it removed.

By: Corporate Citizen

Corporate Citizen — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 18:00:37 +0000

I would bet my paycheck that if the CEO of Hughes Network Systems knew about this, the relationship with Helius an this guy would end immediately! No large corporation would allow this activity knowingly.

Anyone know his email address?

By: Howard Smith

Howard Smith — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 12:14:02 +0000

Lionel

A very good post and indeed this is all about transparency and openness. To me the issue is with the conflict of interests of DS.com and its owner. Being employed as a Sales Guy for a DS company brings with it one major thing – A Sales Target; and when someone has a sales target especially in the current economic climate then a salesperson will do what ever they can do generate prospects and then to close as many as possible its in their interest both financially wise and job security wise.
This is the conflict of interest that I see. Unless there is a demonstrable sandbox or cleanroom environment this will always be the case for DS.com while the ownership works as a salesguy for Helius or indeed any other DS vendor.

Couple that with an ownership in one (or two now as you say) direct DS vendor(s) then the conflict of interest then creeps into Helius themselves as well as the ‘portal’ I mean how many comapnies would employ a salesperson who also sells a competitive product? Just the same as how many people would retain an Attorney who also represents the other party?