World of Spectrum gets a Visit from the IDSA

Dasaan writes "the World of Spectrum , a site that legally archives old Sinclair Spectrum games, has been accused of distributing copyrighted material by the IDSA . The list of games supposedly being offered on the site include titles such as Soldier Of Fortune and Barbarian. And a quick search of the site shows that these titles are indeed being offered, however they are the original versions that were released many years ago and have now been officially made legal to supply by the current copyright owners." Their correspondence is also available.

Comments

Re:From address

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes. It's almost as if they expect that putting dmca@idsa.com on a popular website will lead to a lot of spam.

God, I'm childish.

IDSA Going Nuts

[DarkZero]

The IDSA seems to be on a roll when it comes to stupid cease and desist letters. Lik-Sang's ISP recently received a letter from the IDSA alleging that they had "a good faith belief" that Lik-Sang was violating the DMCA (and apparently the DMCA applies to Hong Kong now?) because their prices were too cheap and that meant that they must be pirating the discs and selling them just above cost.

Lik-Sang, of course, went absolutely wild over it. They found it to be pretty hilarious and saw "So cheap, the IDSA finds it suspicious!" to be a brilliant selling point for their new "Price Crusher" promotion.

Something similar just happened in Germany

[Tomcat666]

What a coincidence... something similar just happened to the German university of Münster.

The BSA sent the university a cease&desist-letter and told them to stop distributing MS Office over their FTP server.

Unfortunately, the file mentioned in the letter is "/mandrake_current/SRPMS/OpenOffice.org-1.0.1-9mdk .src.rpm". Now *that's* one pirated office!

Read more about it on Heise (sorry, German).