Microsoft Kills Watchdog Website Due to Leaked Documents

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/_improper_use_of_copyright.php

by jolie • 16 years ago

26 9 16 years ago

readwriteweb.com

jolie2• 16 years ago

Includes comments from a lengthy interview with EFF folks.

Still waiting to hear back from MSFT...

kevingadd2• 16 years ago

To be fair, it's not clear that Microsoft explicitly knocked out the website. Network Solutions took the site down (apparently earlier than they claimed they were going to), so it's not a given that this was the result Microsoft was after when it sent the notice.

Still bad form either way, though.

jolie2• 16 years ago

Yes. From what I gather MSFT wanted to get their PDF removed. But surely they know that's not how DMCA allegations work, right?

Yahoo! Did the same thing not too long ago, and when Young refused to remove the document, Yahoo! just let it drop. The site never went down, and Yahoo!'s doc is still there.

Also! Here's Microsoft's spy guide: http://www.scribd.com/doc/27394899/Microsoft-Spy

kevingadd2• 16 years ago

I can't comment on the actual interpretation of the laws in question, but whenever we dealt with DMCA notices at a previous company, standard operating procedure was to take down the content in question, and then reinstate it if a counter-notification was filed and leave it up to the two parties' lawyers to settle the dispute. In this case, there seems to have been a counter-notification and the involvement of legal counsel so simply taking down the website seems highly extreme. Maybe it just comes down to operating procedure and Network Solutions goes for a heavy-handed approach because a lot of their customers are hosting warez and such.

skorgu• 16 years ago

Wikileaks is hosting it as well if you don't want to sign up to get the pdf: http://file.wikileaks.org/files/microsoft-spy.pdf

1010011010• 16 years ago

Network "Solutions".

What a shitty company.

tpearson• 16 years ago

Emails from Network Solutions were included in the backup of the site. Apparently it's their policy to suspend sites for 10 days after receiving a counter-DMCA notice and reinstate the site after 14 days if they haven't been served with a lawsuit.

Edit: the mirror is at http://cryptomeorg.siteprotect.net/

and the email to MSFT from Network Solutions says: "Attached please find a Counter-Claim Notification received from John Young of www.cryptome.org on this date. We note that pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (the “DMCA”) we will reactivate the Web site following the allotted time frame (not less than 10 and no more than 14 business days) unless we receive notice of litigation."

nitrogen• 16 years ago

DeusExMachina• 16 years ago

The funny thing is that doing so, now even more websites are talking about the matter, exposing MS bad behaviour regarding DMCA and publishing the document for everybody to read.

They only got things go worse.

Microsoft Kills Watchdog Website Due to Leaked Documents

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