Search Engine Watch: Forget Smart Tags; TopText Is Doing What You Feared
- Editorial decrying stealth download tactics, copyright and other legal violations.
- http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=2164091

c|net Tech News: Peer-to-peer exchanges court advertisers
- Article describing the financial arrangements, briefly mentioning the controversy.
- http://news.com.com/2100-1023-271020.html

c|net Tech News: Chorus of Gator critics grows
- Article on Interactive Advertising Bureau's possible regulatory complaint over Gator's ad insertion. Also discusses Top Text and the effort against it.
- http://news.com.com/2100-1023-272244.html

San Diego Daily Transcript: 'Poachware' Routes Computer Users To Alternate Web Sites
- Article about anti-competitive involuntary hyperlinks being placed by Top Text (aka ContextPro).
- http://www.sddt.com/Search/article.cfm?SourceCode=20010827tba

geek/talk Forums at GeekVillage
- Discussion about the eZula TopText defacement in the context of copyright violation.
- http://www.geekvillage.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=12175

StopScum
- Resources, news and forums for the fight against contextual advertising.
- http://www.stopscum.com/

Salon.com: The parasite economy
- Examines the spread of both "spyware" and programs that add commercial links to websites. KaZaa's distribution of eZula is heavily featured.
- http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/08/02/parasite_capital/index.html

Associate Programs Newsletter: How to stop Scumware from defacing your website
- Explains how Top Text and similar programs can negatively affect income streams, particularly for sites that use affilate programs.
- http://www.associateprograms.com/search/newsletter173.shtml

COTSE: You may have heard of Microsoft Smart Tags, but have you seen Ezula and Surf+?
- A webmaster's editorial accusing TopText and Intelsoft International's Surf+ of theft, false advertising, and deceptive self-promotion.
- http://www.cotse.com/8202001.html

TrafficG Yellow and Green Link Killer
- Provides script to disable Top Text and Surf+. Documents source code alterations made by these programs.
- http://www.trafficg.com/scumware/index.htm

Ethics in Advertising
- Editorial asking "How far should advertising go?" Examines eZula's browser plug in as a specific example of unethical advertising.
- http://www.rubak.com/article.cfm?ID=13

Foistware
- Information to help users and webmasters identify when Top Text is installed.
- http://www.cexx.org/toptext.htm

Protect Your Web Site from Unwanted Linking
- Explains how the eZula system works and provides resources that allow users to remove it and to help web site owners protect their sites from unwanted advertising insertion.
- http://www.unwantedlinks.com/

ThiefWare.com
- Information and resources primarily for webmasters who wish to fight unethical contextual advertising.
- http://www.thiefware.com/

PCWorld: Latest Online Ad Gimmick: Hyperlinks
- "Advertisers try aggressive (and annoying) hyperlink technology to make the Web pay."
- http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,57064,00.asp

Applelinks: Another New Technology to Deep-Six
- Editorial suggesting "loud, pointed, organized protests" against this attempt to "take over your web pages."
- http://www.applelinks.com/articles/2001/08/20010803142336.shtml

Advanced HTML For Beginners: Yellow links can destroy your day and your income
- Forum thread on the eZula "scumware" and possible responses.
- http://www.ahfb2000.com/webmaster_help_desk/showthread.php?s=&threadid=301

PetitionOnline: eZula
- Petition protesting insertion of advertising links on web pages.
- http://www.petitiononline.com/toptext/

WebHostingTalk Forums: KaZaa is Hijacking Traffic!
- Webmasters and surfers, mostly disapproving of the embedded advertising links.
- http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?threadid=18027&perpage=20&pagenumber=1

eZula and Surf+ Script Killer
- Provides a script killer for the eZula software. Also works on Surf+.
- http://www.searchking.com/ezulakiller/

You got the yellow linking Virus?
- Gives information on how to remove/unistall TopText, and links to other more detailed resources.
- http://www.funs.co.uk/virus/

Whirly Wiry Web: Fighting Ezula
- Discussion of web design to detect and defeat contextual advertising, including recognizing the HotText and TopText plugins.
- http://www.whirlywiryweb.com/q/ezula.asp

Slashdot: Don't Eat the Yellow Links
- Web owners upset by changed content; describes an "opt-out" procedure.
- http://slashdot.org/features/01/07/31/2015216.shtml

Mystery links: New Web advertising tool gets results, draws criticism
- San Francisco Chronicle: mentions concerns about the ethics of covert advertising, and commercial firms outraged by links to competitors' sites.
- http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/07/30/BU231339.DTL