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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. 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?

  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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.