The FTC (the U.S. Federal Trade Commission) has issued a set of "guidelines" under which they can levy fines upon anyone who receives free merchandise or other compensation from a company and then comments on it on the Internet, whether in a blog, a consumer review site like Amazon, or in a public forum such as this one, unless they make full and adequate disclosure of exactly what they received from the company. The "guidelines" are very vague, and very broad, and only the FTC gets to decide what constitutes an acceptable disclosure statement, but as I read it, this will certainly apply to all beta testers who receive hardware from Logitech and subsequently make any public posts commenting on the product. So if you're a beta tester, you might want to be very careful, and perhaps change your forum sig to state in plain, clear terms exactly what Logitech gave you. I'm not saying they're necessarily going to come after you if you don't; I'm just saying it might be a good idea to be careful about it.
Here is 'one article about it' (http://www.slate.com/id/2231808/pagenum/all/), which includes a link to the FTC document. It's an interesting read, if you're into bizarre bureaucratic bilgewater. -- Dogberry2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dogberry2's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18883 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=69819 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
