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FOSS Application Under Attack by Makers of KaZaa
Famatra writes "A story
from Zeropaid indicates that maker of
KaZaA, Sharman Networks, has sent a Cease
and Desist Letter to the maker of KCEasy because it interoperates with their
FastTrack network. The creator of KCeasy says on the
KCEasy website "I feel that inclusion of
FastTrack access with KCeasy is not worth a legal battle between Sharman and
myself". A similar issue was covered by the Slashdot story
Fight On Blizzard Vs. Bnetd Case on the right to reverse engineer to create
an interoperable network. Reverse engineering to be another on the list of
rights that have fallen by the wayside?"
A better analogy would be you can have the right to reverse engineering how my lock works all you want, but I can still shoot you if you come into my house uninvited.
R: That voice. Where have I heard that voice before? B: In about 365 other episodes. But I don't know who it is either.
Get up off their network, you didn't have permission to be accessing with and/or generating traffic on it. Damn, just because it's FOSS doesn't give the creator the right to access other people's shit.