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Interview with Alexander Noe, PxScan Developer

Posted by Hemos on from the good-information-to-have dept.

wikinerd writes "I interviewed Alexander Noe, developer of the open source PxScan and PxView utilities. He recently received a cease-and-desist letter by Shinano Kenshi, the Japanese company which controls Plextor. His utilities provide similar functionality with PlexTools, sending special command sequences to Plextor DVD recorders that activate special features such as media quality check."

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  1. The source by MartijnH · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The original source of this story is this thread on the CD Freaks Plextor DVD Burner Forum. I guess the comments in that thread tell a lot about what long time customers of Plextor think at the moment.

  2. An email? by dougmc · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Alexander Noé: The letter itself is not explicitely marked as such, but I'm not sure if I have the right to publish an email sent to me in general without the sender agreeing on this.
    Just recently I received an email from a lawyer in Nigera. Apparantly his client's father had died and left a large sum of money in a bank account. Apparantly they need my help to get the money ...

    Seriously, serious legal threats usually don't arrive via email. Lawyers usually prefer to speak with certified letters and such, where they know it was received and who received it and when (and can prove it in court), and so in general anything received via email should be taken with a big grain of salt. Email is too unreliable (my spam filter ate it!) and just hasn't been around enough decades to make the legal system trust it. At most, they might send a certified letter and an email at the same time (and so the email will arrive first) but I suspect that even that's rare.

    The email may be legitimate, and in this case it sounds like it probably is, but even so ... big grain of salt.