Thank god.. We hope it goes in that directory.. Hope you'll always be there for your fans Hazar.. you're now a well-celebrated programmer.. we can't afford to lose you.. damn M$.. Just take care pal.. I'm sure you'll make it through.. Regards..
Indeed, after many OEM BIOS mods and Win7 activations I feel more educated. No need to worry, torrents FTW!
Read up on US Law before giving advice... Distributing DMCA requests according to how the the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, DMCA for short, was written isn't against the law (Go figure...). While the legality of giving the email address to a copyright holder is questionable (there is no clear law, some argue you can give it out, most say you need a judge to subpoena information), the DMCA wasn't delivered from Microsoft. It was delivered by DropBox who already has the information. Had Microsoft been interested in perusing any legal action, they would have subpoenaed the information from DropBox (that means the courts force DropBox to hand over the information to Microsoft) so that a legal court case can proceed rather than send a DMCA through DropBox to remove the infringing information.
Did you share their products online, or what? I think you are hosting program YOU wrote, and M$ cannot have copyright claims of any sort over such a thing. The only thing I can think of is that they claim that you are hosting a software that can circumvent their protection mechanism. Two things here: 1. I live in EU and we have sane laws here: a protection mechanism that has been broken (cr**ked) is not considered a protection mechanism anymore. The crime itself is breaking the mechanism, but that's been done already - I think a good lawyer could even swing the whole thing around and say that M$ did not even bother protecting its product (you have to admit that the mechanism is really lame). So, just move to an EU server and let them fix their broken mechanism. 2. If you take a look at the internet today: there are a lot of warez, torrent, etc sites, and they live happily ever after. M$ cannot do anything about them, even if some servers are actually sitting on their own turf. So, again, move to a non-US server, or, just post your tool on a warez site - it will be mirrored on hundreds of servers around the world in the next 24 hours. The choices M$ has are: - release quality OSes that users embrace and have no problem paying for, or - offer the OS for a very low price - so that people don't need to think twice before buying it and turn to unofficial downloads - find someone to blame, prosecute the person and pray that it's going to hold the others back in non-US countries, too Scratch that last one, it's not gonna work 100%; people might feel more compelled to "pay back" on behalf of that poor soul and go the unofficial way...
I would suggest uploading files to sites such as sharebee, kiloupload or uploadjockey -- they can't get it down on all of them
i think microsoft spies are visiting our posts to find out what is going here and they are searching ways to stop the illigal activation of their o#s and they are doing their best to stop pi#r#cy
Just wondering, could you provide us a copy of that email without personnal infos of course? 10 pages, that's a big email.
fist of all microsoft can't do anything to you and if you remove the loader from your hoster the file will travel around the web so don't worry... then so why didn't they did something about vista from other loaders?why?because they can't that's the truth
I got a DMCA from my ISP thanks to Disney earlier this year (it was a torrent so they had my ip and the file I was sharing). My ISP said specifically in the letter that they wouldn't give Disney any of my info unless Disney took legal action that required them to. The letter itself was good enough to stop me from using torrents, so I guess they accomplished their goal of stopping me from seeding with my huge upload bandwidth. I still use usenet for myself though.