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Microsoft Issues Takedown Notices Over COFEE

Posted by Soulskill on from the horses-and-barn-doors dept.

Eugen tips news that Microsoft has sent DMCA takedown notices to several websites to stop them from offering the Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor (COFEE) tool for download after it was leaked earlier this month. One of the sites, Cryptome.org, has posted their correspondence with Microsoft over the software. "... Microsoft contacted Network Solutions, which hosts Cryptome, and since John Young, the owner of the website, wasn't too keen on losing his whole website for the sake of a single 15MB file, he removed the download link and sent Network Solutions a notice of compliance."

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  1. Can't stop the signal by Monkeedude1212 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Everything goes somewhere, and I go everywhere.

    Once something is leaked you can take down all the websites you want, but you won't stop P2P Sharing.

  2. Still available on TPB.... by Ellis+D.+Tripp · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5156601

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  3. Re:Links Still Live by JWSmythe · · Score: 4, Informative

        Check the file contents. The only thing in the zip file is the takedown notice.

       

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