[vlc-devel] WARNING: VLC is being sold without permission!!

[xxcv]

Danny wrote:
> I agree that lawsuits are daft and the GPL allows you to re-sell
> anyway so its a bit of a null point.
>   
I feel encouraged to make a website videolan.* and start selling vlc it 
will make alot of sense
according to your ideas. So no doubt that this so called scammer could 
have been anybody.
> As you said earlier it could be worth checking where the link comes
> from and redirecting to a page showing the latest version and a
> message about scammers.
>
> Its not hard to code a little php to do this, there might even be
> something freely available in a script repository.
>
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 8:27 AM, <jpd at videolan.org> wrote:
>   
>> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 10:00:32AM +1000, xxcv wrote:
>>     
>>> Since you should have received a lot of money donations by now.
>>>       
>> What makes you assume that?
>>
>>
>>     
>>> So why don't you (videolan.org do something about it) launch a law suit
>>> against that domain owner for infringe your Copyright ???????????
>>> Or you wanna let the guy get away with it ?
>>>       
>> Have you been in a lawsuit at all? For something as nebulous and
>> finnicky as copyright infringment across borders?
>>
>> That the RIAA has such trouble with persecuting ``music pirates'' (and
>> they're sitting on *a lot* of money) isn't just because their executives
>> are complete idiots. Their lawyers are quite competent at lawyering, if
>> not so much on technical details.
>>
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