CAVEAT:<\/strong> I still read The Star<\/em> today as it’s my way to lend moral support to my journalist friends who write good copies in the firm.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n When you buy a print copy of the daily press, you can freely do newspaper-cutting for keeps, as library or as research materials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Or use the newspapers to wrap trash, some newspapers belonged to this ending, like the good old days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now, when you pay for an ePaper copy, like Star ePaper<\/em>, you are possessed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n You cease control over the goods you purchased.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you make a screen-capture and save it as low-res JPG file, in the eyes of the Star, you are as if committing a crime and you are threatened that you account may be terminated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Isn\u2019t this a form of criminal intimidation? <\/p>\n\n\n\n Are paid consumers – who don\u2019t want to play game with The Star<\/em>, guaranteed a full refund for terminating the subscription unilaterally?<\/p>\n\n\n\n For years I subscribed to electronic and digital versions of many first-world media – The Economist, NY Times, Washington Post, The Guardian, Straits Times Singapore<\/em> etc. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Tons of low-res JPG files I had kept as screenshots in the Cloud for reference use as an Op-Ed columnist. <\/p>\n\n\n\n None of this nonsense ever happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Which makes you think.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What actually goes on among the Star Board of Directors (political dropout Chairman\/de facto CEO Fu Ah Kiow<\/a><\/strong> included), the core management, and its ePaper service vendor, Fireworks.Digital<\/em> (www.fireworks.my<\/a>)?<\/p>\n\n\n\n I will do a video recording to chronicle how my ePaper account has been manipulated by the Fireworks app version 1.3.5<\/em>, and send it over to the relevant authorities for good accountability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Those who had similarly condemned this Star act had provided public feedback in the Apple App Store since October 2020. Here are the screenshots I took.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Any lawyer out there who wants to take up the case pro bono<\/em>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ministers and law makers with brains could take it from here on their own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Concerned Malaysians can share this out and vitalise it in the cyberspace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Digital Malaysia us dead. Long live Digital Malaysia.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Reference: The Star trading range at KLCI <\/a>at the point of this posting: 31~32 sen<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Star\u2019s business ethics. CAVEAT: I still read The Star today as it’s my way to lend moral support to my journalist friends who write good copies in the firm. When you buy a print copy […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/jeffooi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_0669.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffooi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffooi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffooi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffooi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffooi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jeffooi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":554,"href":"https:\/\/jeffooi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions\/554"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffooi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffooi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffooi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffooi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/jeffooi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_0670-1024x768.png\")
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