{"id":6972,"date":"2006-09-20T05:57:09","date_gmt":"2006-09-20T09:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=6972"},"modified":"2006-09-20T06:12:50","modified_gmt":"2006-09-20T10:12:50","slug":"boycott-rosetta-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=6972","title":{"rendered":"BOYCOTT ROSETTA STONE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever called for a true boycott before.  Here&#8217;s the deal (from the <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/group\/Teachers_Editions\/message\/2302\">Teachers Edition Yahoo group<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I spoke this morning to the head of Rosetta Stone&#8217;s legal department&#8211; very nice man but not very accomodating. Fairfield Technologies will not allow their software products to be resold by individuals. You must be an authorized seller. If they find your product on eBay or Craig&#8217;s list or any other eBay affliate, they will pull them. I did get him to admit that this was their policy not a legal issue since legally I have the right to resell. However, as long as these sites have an agreement with Fairfield, then Fairfield is at liberty to pull listings. I expect you will find other software companies will be &#8220;jumping on the bandwagon&#8221; so be prepared.<\/p>\n<p>Robin, eclectic educator<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, you can&#8217;t re-sell a $200 language program when you&#8217;re done using it.  That&#8217;s just wrong.  We&#8217;ve purchased their products in the past (Arabic).  Never again.  And I urge all home educators to follow suit.  There are lots of other language programs available.<\/p>\n<p>Contact info:<\/p>\n<p>info@RosettaStone.com<\/p>\n<p>Fairfield Language Technologies<br \/>\n135 W. Market St.<br \/>\nHarrisonburg, VA, 22801<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever called for a true boycott before. Here&#8217;s the deal (from the Teachers Edition Yahoo group): I spoke this morning to the head of Rosetta Stone&#8217;s legal department&#8211; very nice man but not very accomodating. Fairfield Technologies will not allow their software products to be resold by individuals. You must be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6972"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}