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The Software Awards Scam

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jamie sends us to a blog post about the worthlessness of some download sites' "5-star" awards. Andy Brice, a UK-based software developer, packaged up a little text file full of the words "This software does nothing" as an EXE and named it "awardmestars." So far his self-proclaiming useless program has garnered sixteen 5-star awards from download sites he submitted it to. Brice concludes that many of the download sites are "just electronic dung heaps, using fake awards, dubious SEO and content misappropriated from PAD files in a pathetic attempt to make a few dollars from Google Adwords."

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Talk about absurdities. Confused
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I think it was Chris Farley who said, "I can take a crap in a box and stamp guaranteed on it but you'll still only have a guaranteed box of crap"
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Do they give the crap a 5 star rating?
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crap.exe, now let me add it to some download sites

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There ya go Strider. Guaranteed 5-star in some sites.


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Laugh out loud
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Thank you "O"

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