Who checks the malware fighters?

[Mike Easter]

Jenn wrote:
> "Mike Easter"
>> mbam had a legal conflict with IOBit, claiming iobit infringed IP. During
>> that battle would have been a good time for iobit to claim that mbam
>> harbored 'gremlins', but it did not. It only claimed that it didn't
>> intentionally infringe IP and that remedies had been taken about mbam's
>> concerns.

>
> What does *infringe IP* mean?

IP is intellectual property (rights) in this context. So the
infringement is on the property rights.

<wiki> On November 2, 2009, Malwarebytes accused rival IOBit of
incorporating the database of Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware (and several
products from other vendors, which were not named) in its security
software IOBit Security 360. ... Malwarebytes claims to have served DMCA
infringement notices against CNET Download.com and MajorGeeks.com in
order to have the download sites remove the IOBit software. </wiki>

DMCA = Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is a US copyright law


--
Mike Easter

[Jenn]

"Mike Easter" <MikeE@ster.invalid> wrote in message
news:833s8rFgvgU1@mid.individual.net...
> Jenn wrote:
>> "Mike Easter"
>>> mbam had a legal conflict with IOBit, claiming iobit infringed IP.
>>> During that battle would have been a good time for iobit to claim that
>>> mbam harbored 'gremlins', but it did not. It only claimed that it
>>> didn't intentionally infringe IP and that remedies had been taken about
>>> mbam's concerns.
>
>>
>> What does *infringe IP* mean?
>
> IP is intellectual property (rights) in this context. So the infringement
> is on the property rights.
>
> <wiki> On November 2, 2009, Malwarebytes accused rival IOBit of
> incorporating the database of Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware (and several
> products from other vendors, which were not named) in its security
> software IOBit Security 360. ... Malwarebytes claims to have served DMCA
> infringement notices against CNET Download.com and MajorGeeks.com in order
> to have the download sites remove the IOBit software. </wiki>
>
> DMCA = Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is a US copyright law
>


thanks Mike!
--
Jenn (from Oklahoma)
http://pqlr.org/bbs/

[Dustin Cook]

Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> wrote in
news:833s8rFgvgU1@mid.individual.net:

> Jenn wrote:
>> "Mike Easter"
>>> mbam had a legal conflict with IOBit, claiming iobit infringed IP.
>>> During that battle would have been a good time for iobit to claim
>>> that mbam harbored 'gremlins', but it did not. It only claimed that
>>> it didn't intentionally infringe IP and that remedies had been taken
>>> about mbam's concerns.
>
>>
>> What does *infringe IP* mean?
>
> IP is intellectual property (rights) in this context. So the
> infringement is on the property rights.
>
> <wiki> On November 2, 2009, Malwarebytes accused rival IOBit of
> incorporating the database of Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware (and several
> products from other vendors, which were not named) in its security
> software IOBit Security 360. ... Malwarebytes claims to have served
> DMCA infringement notices against CNET Download.com and MajorGeeks.com
> in order to have the download sites remove the IOBit software.
> </wiki>

They did serve DMCA complaints, and for a very short time; iobit was
pulled.



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