BSA giants sue kickme.to for software piracy

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Posted on	15/02/02 18:19
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BSA giants sue kickme.to for software piracy

okayman used our newssubmit to tell us that CDRSoft is reporting that the redirection service kickme.to is under heavy legal pressure by the BSA.

Redirection services are widely used by software and audio pirates to move their actual pages from server to server while not chaning the internet address their visitors have to enter. There are, however, also a lot of legal users.

We think it is ridiculus to ban technology. To ban a redirection system, would be just like banning a part of the Internet. Hundreds of thousands of people would lose their homes.

Domain names are the building blocks of the navigation system on the internet. Banning the use of them would be a disaster.

What BSA is after is to ban our domain names from the internet, just because we have developed a technology to let the public get free domain names. They do not care about the actual content stored on the homepages of other hosts. Hosts that acutally commit a crime by having unauthorized software on their harddrives.

Where on earth can you find unauthorized software on kickme.to? There is just one plain simple answer! WE DO NOT ALLOW USERS TO STORE CONTENT ON OUR SERVERS! THEREFORE WE HAVE NO UNAUTHORIZED CONTENT ON OUR HARDDRIVES OR IN OUR CACHE!

I think the owner of the kickme.to domain is right. He should not be held responsible for the people that are abusing his service.

We also don't close down CDRW drive manufacturers because there are people that use their drives to pirate software instead of making legal backups.

Source: CDRSoft

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Posted by okayman on Friday 15 February 2002 18:39

Microsoft let us drag an icon to "Create Shortcut", same purpose as kickme.to, to make life little bit easier surfing the net.

You can also find warez sites or they quoted "www.elitetoplist.com" as illegal link from search engine like Yahoo, Lycos and Altavista, etc. Are they also liable to prosecution? I doubt!

Posted by yj4x4 on Friday 15 February 2002 19:48

A Swedish court has so far ruled in kickme.to's favor, read about it here:http://ns2.dynamicname.com/court/index.html

Posted by nsumner on Friday 15 February 2002 20:25

Wow, How completely and uterly upsard. This is really a suit against any service that offers dynamic DNS. Even Static DNS could come next. Since if you only move every month or so you could do the same with Static DNS. I guess this solves the suit will British Telecom at least

Posted by Observer on Friday 15 February 2002 20:29

Let's get MS to court. Because people use 'My Favorites" to store the domain names to get to the Warez sites
And let us get the printer manufactories to court. The make it possible that we can print our own covers.
Etc, etc.

Posted by the111 on Friday 15 February 2002 23:07

I'd shut up about taking CDRW drive manufacturers to court... you'll give them ideas.

Posted by ploegercr on Friday 15 February 2002 23:28

100%

Posted by Nila on Saturday 16 February 2002 00:39

They can have as many idea's as they want because if they win this case I am going to move to america (the best country to Sue in if you want to win a ridiculas court case) and I am going to sue the pen manufacturers because I use the pens to write down what warez is on what CD's and so they are to blame. Also, all my information when I plan bombings is written using pens and so I will sue for all bombings that have taken place.

Next I'll sue all the wire manufacturers because I could use their wires to make bombs with.

I'm gonna be rich.

BSA -> get a life, then a brain, then shove your head up your ass and go fuck yourselves.

Posted by InterCepTor on Saturday 16 February 2002 01:07

man, what a response, you have cheered me up from an unhappy state of mind, TY :4

Posted by on Saturday 16 February 2002 16:40

THIS IS AN EMAIL I SENT TO THE OWNER OF KICKME.TO

G'day,

Guess what dude, from what you've said here;
1, kickme.to does not promote individual member activities.
2, kickme.to does not allow content to be uploaded on their servers.
3, kickme.to does not link or allow links to any downloadable content.
4, kickme.to does not provide a list of links visitors can click on.
5, kickme.to does not provide a search facility where users can find specific content.
6, kickme.to does not provide a unique service.
7, kickme.to are unable to have administrative access to servers not under their own control.
8, Accounts are created by an automatic process.

Take microsoft to court along with all the other companies that condole MP3 playback.. does microsoft take resposibility for illegal use of the Mp3 format with their Media player or any other company for that matter with portable MP3 players.. does the fraunhoffen Institute (the people resposible for the development of the Mp3 format).. all they have done is open a gateway to music piracy.. are they getting into trouble.. NO..

FUCK EM..

Take your case and put it up against theres and tell em to go hang themselves..

The law is fucked up..

Spit in their faces and tell them that supporting MP3 in your applications is a much more serious offense then what they are scaring you with..

FUCK EM FUCK EM Sorry about my language.. I wish I was there with you to take these assholes ot court..

Cheers :0

P.S email me back.. I got counter-sue information on every fucken company there is.. I even have the power to close down every petrol station here in Australia due to some information I have on them.. big companies shouldn't scare us little people

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