P2P Scammers' Lawyers Attack Open Source Team

An anonymous reader writes "Late last year a company affiliated with the French RIAA hijacked the Shareaza.com domain name from the original, open source project's owner. They are passing off their own for-pay software, which violates the GPL, as the real thing. Now, having stolen the Shareaza project's identity, the scammers are threatening legal action to shut down the real open source team."

Reminds me of a story...

[Darundal]

...from a while back in which some hardware counterfeiters in china got to the point where they where actually paying a firm for R&D for new products.

Interesting name...

[tnoren]

The French Recording Industry Association of America i know i know "it's just the equivalent"

Smoking in the licence agreement...

[craig1709]

"SMOKING

Smoking overall is bad for you. It gives you bad breath and may kill you sooner than you'd expect." - the licence agreement [shareaza.com]
All I can say is: WTF?

Looks like the DOS will happen after all

[Anonymous Coward]

It would appear as if the DOS attack announced in the official sharezaa forum will happen after all. Slashdoters, visit and reload http://www.shareaza.com/ [shareaza.com] as many times as you can.

Don't do that!

[ArsenneLupin]

You'll get Slashdot in trouble. Indeed, by your link you effectively trigger a Dos against the shite, by means of Slashdot effect!

One Way To Easily Defeat French Scammers ...

[blcamp]

Just declare war on them.

Re:Darn, now I have to RTFA

[drawfour]

No, it stands for "Recording Industry Association of Assholes". Applicable for any country.

Re:One Way To Easily Defeat French Scammers ...

[Anonymous Coward]

Still bitter that they wouldn't rubber-stamp your oil-war?

Re:Don't do that!

[russ1337]

...you effectively trigger a Dos against the shite

Sean Connery? is that you?

Oh, delicious irony.

[The Ultimate Fartkno]

FTA:

"It's no surprise that emotions run high when people are ripped off..."

It's not getting "ripped off," it's SHARING!

Re:Don't do that!

[spun]

...you effectively trigger a Dos against the shite

Sean Connery? is that you?

Yesh, and I DOShed your wife's shite lasht night, Trebeck.

Re:Don't do that!

[Anonymous Coward]

What if, hypothetically, everybody typed these words in bash:

cd /tmp && ( while true; do wget -m --delete-after http://www.shareaza.com/; sleep 1; done )

Would that be illegal too?

WARNING: this code is provided for educational purposes only. don't EXECUTE IT!
(unless, of course, you are bored after reading TFA and feel like reading something interesting, like for example the shareaza.com website 1000 times in a row)

Re:Do better than that

[Maxo-Texas]

So basically Jeffrey A. Kimmel said the following...

PLEASE WIDELY PUBLICIZE MY CLIENTS AND CAUSE UNENDING DOS ATTACKS ON THEM.

                Thank you,
                Jeffrey A. Kimmel

                Meister Seelig & Fein, LLP
                140 E. 45th St., 19th Fl.
                New York, NY 10017
                [phone]

Re:direct link

[Anonymous Coward]

people could post stuff like http://download.shareazaweb.com/ShareazaV4.exe [shareazaweb.com] which is the direct link to their program. It seems like if someone did that as a link, and slashdot people clicked it, and downloaded the program, it would really tax their server. hey, whats this "post anonymously button" checkbox?