Do website ao livro ?

Cronologicamente inventou-se o livro e só depois, muito depois, a Internet e os websites.

Mas agora pode suceder o inverso.

Li no Times [extracto abaixo] que os pais da famosa 'criança desaparecida, AKA Maddie ou Maddy' que estão chocados com o facto de haver empresas / particulares a registar websites associados ao nome da desaparecida.

Esses websites estão no topo de utilização da Internet nas últimas semanas e portanto rendem milhões em publicidade.

Deixamos a frase destes pais gravada neste blog, e esperamos que o post não se torne incómodo caso um dia os pais resolvam escrever um livro sobre este 'caso' e ... vendê-lo.



From The Times
May 18, 2007
Web squatters exploit Madeleine campaign
Businesses register domain names similar to findmadeleine.com to take advantage of the official site's worldwide attention

Madeleine McCann
David Brown and Steve Bird in Praia da Luz

Unscrupulous businesses are cashing in on the interest in the internet campaign to find Madeleine McCann by attempting to trick the millions of visitors with bogus websites.

By yesterday afternoon the Find Madeleine website, findmadeleine.com, had received more than 75 million hits in its first 48 hours, making it one of the most popular destinations on the internet. It gives details of the search for Madeleine since she was abducted from an Algarve holiday apartment 16 days ago.

However, more than 20 websites with similar names have been created in the past three days to promote businesses including chat rooms, estate agents and dating sites.

The McCann family has condemned the “typo squatters”, who make money from advertising links on the bogus websites. John McCann, Madeleine’s uncle and a director of Madeleine’s Fund, branded the people behind the websites “parasites”. He said: “We are incredibly disappointed that [they] are taking advantage of people’s generosity and using it for commercial gain.”