Pfizer, Microsoft vs Viagra spam
p2pnet.net News:- Here’s an interesting alliance: the world’s top monopolist, Microsoft, and Pfizer, one of the world’s largest drug companies, are partnered in a major anti-piracy campaign.
Coming under attack, however, is a knock-off other than music.
“Pfizer, Microsoft take harsh approach to Viagra counterfeits,” says a story in Canada’s Globe & Mail, with the sub-head, "Team up to sue sellers, spammers”
The two say they’ve finished an investigation into the “alleged” sale of counterfeit Viagra by launching lawsuits an e-mail spam ring with several groups of affiliates all advertising websites associated with CanadianPharmacy, one of the two Internet pharmacies named.
Orders are filled with "illegal, unregulated and unapproved products," which are then shipped from India to the US by an air freight company, says the story.
But, “None of the allegations have been proven,” it states.
Pfizer and Microsoft also named E-Pharmacy Direct, which operates http://www.myepharmacydirect.com, in the lawsuit and are, “trying to seize 10 domain names, including ones for such exotic sites as http://www.freegenericviagra.com and http://www.sameasviagra.com, that allegedly sell products not approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration,” says the Globe & Mail.
Pfizer was recently hammered by America’s Food and Drug Administration for a Viagra tv ad showing a man with blue horns and the audio, ‘Remember that guy who used to be called ‘Wild Thing?’
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See:-
knock-off – Pfizer, Microsoft take harsh approach to Viagra counterfeits, Globe & Mail, February 11, 2005
Wild Thing – Flushing Wild Thang, p2pnet, November 15, 2004
