P2P Scammers' Lawyers Attack Open Source Team 157
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."
Interesting move by the French RIAA (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Do better than that (Score:3, Interesting)
Darn, now I have to RTFA (Score:3, Interesting)
The French "Recording Industry Association of America? WTF?
Kdawson, please have some more coffee before you "edit" the next story, ok?
Re:Interesting move by the French RIAA (Score:3, Interesting)
its happened before on a grander scale.. (Score:5, Interesting)
Think I'm joking? I assure you I am not, here are some references...
http://www.eetindia.co.in/ART_8800416910_1800007_NT_5c0424e2.HTM [eetindia.co.in]
http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=187200176 [eetimes.com]
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/01/technology/01pirate.html [nytimes.com]
http://www.smh.com.au/news/biztech/slick-pirates-seize-entire-brand/2006/05/29/1148754904830.html [smh.com.au]
The hardest thing is sometimes to persuade people that what they are doing in actually wrong in the first place, I guess this is the case with Shareaza.
Is this more Discordian FOSS acquisition? (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:maybe not accessible ... (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:direct link (Score:4, Interesting)
History of the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet:
When it was first published in 1830 by Lars Johan Hierta, it was a tabloid that reported news and also criticised the new Swedish king Charles XIV John. The king stopped Aftonbladet from being printed and banned it, this was answered by starting the new newspaper "Det andra Aftonbladet" (The second Aftonbladet), which was subsequently banned, followed by new versions named in similar fashion until the newspaper had been renamed 26 times, after which it was allowed by the king. [1]
Kinda similar.