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P2P Scammers' Lawyers Attack Open Source Team

Posted by kdawson on from the worst-are-full-of-passionate-intensity dept.

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."

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  1. Reminds me of a story... by Darundal · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...from a while back in which some hardware counterfeiters in china got to the point where they where actually paying a firm for R&D for new products.

  2. Interesting name... by tnoren · · Score: 2, Funny

    The French Recording Industry Association of America i know i know "it's just the equivalent"

  3. Smoking in the licence agreement... by craig1709 · · Score: 5, Funny

    "SMOKING

    Smoking overall is bad for you. It gives you bad breath and may kill you sooner than you'd expect." - the licence agreement
    All I can say is: WTF?

  4. Looks like the DOS will happen after all by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    It would appear as if the DOS attack announced in the official sharezaa forum will happen after all. Slashdoters, visit and reload http://www.shareaza.com/ as many times as you can.

  5. Don't do that! by ArsenneLupin · · Score: 3, Funny

    You'll get Slashdot in trouble. Indeed, by your link you effectively trigger a Dos against the shite, by means of Slashdot effect!

    1. Re:Don't do that! by russ1337 · · Score: 4, Funny

      ...you effectively trigger a Dos against the shite
      Sean Connery? is that you?
    2. Re:Don't do that! by spun · · Score: 4, Funny

      ...you effectively trigger a Dos against the shite


      Sean Connery? is that you? Yesh, and I DOShed your wife's shite lasht night, Trebeck.
      --
      - None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
    3. Re:Don't do that! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny
      What if, hypothetically, everybody typed these words in bash:

      cd /tmp && ( while true; do wget -m --delete-after http://www.shareaza.com/; sleep 1; done )
      Would that be illegal too?

      WARNING: this code is provided for educational purposes only. don't EXECUTE IT!
      (unless, of course, you are bored after reading TFA and feel like reading something interesting, like for example the shareaza.com website 1000 times in a row)
  6. One Way To Easily Defeat French Scammers ... by blcamp · · Score: 3, Funny


    Just declare war on them.

    --
    The problem with socialism is that they always run out of other people's money. - Margaret Thatcher
    1. Re:One Way To Easily Defeat French Scammers ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Still bitter that they wouldn't rubber-stamp your oil-war?

  7. Re:Darn, now I have to RTFA by drawfour · · Score: 4, Funny

    No, it stands for "Recording Industry Association of Assholes". Applicable for any country.

  8. Oh, delicious irony. by The+Ultimate+Fartkno · · Score: 2, Funny

    FTA:

    "It's no surprise that emotions run high when people are ripped off..."

    It's not getting "ripped off," it's SHARING!

  9. Re:Do better than that by Maxo-Texas · · Score: 2, Funny

    So basically Jeffrey A. Kimmel said the following...

    PLEASE WIDELY PUBLICIZE MY CLIENTS AND CAUSE UNENDING DOS ATTACKS ON THEM.

                    Thank you,
                    Jeffrey A. Kimmel

                    Meister Seelig & Fein, LLP
                    140 E. 45th St., 19th Fl.
                    New York, NY 10017
                    (212) 655-3578

    --
    She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
  10. Re:direct link by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    people could post stuff like http://download.shareazaweb.com/ShareazaV4.exe which is the direct link to their program. It seems like if someone did that as a link, and slashdot people clicked it, and downloaded the program, it would really tax their server. hey, whats this "post anonymously button" checkbox?