Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 16:38:43 -0700 From: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com> To: otl@uts.cc.utexas.edu Cc: doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ACITS LPR Remote Printing Software REMOVE DIRECT DOWNLOAD LINK!! Message-ID: <20010614163843Q.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: <200106142035.PAA21488@moe.cc.utexas.edu> References: <200106142035.PAA21488@moe.cc.utexas.edu>
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Dear Kat, This has to be one of the most unusual, to say nothing of misguided, requests we've received in quite some time. You offer a package for download without authentication or any form of access control, yet you go after a site which merely REFERENCES the software in question and does not make it directly available by any other means. Have you lost your minds? Just out of curiousity, I did a couple of net searches and found over 30 other references to your software, not counting the Internet "spiders" who will have already auto-discovered the location of your software and made it available through the almost uncountable number of indices they provide. The page you reference is also an excerpt from a published work from Addison-Wesley and without knowing their sales figures, we can safely postulate that there must be many thousands of copies out there with references to your software. If you do not wish for "unregistered users" to download it then it is incumbent on you to provide some kind of access control which simply does not allow downloads without the proper authentication. To do otherwise is tantamount to leaving your front door open 24x7 and then complaining when people or other undesirable forms of life come in. It truly demonstrates a significant degree of ignorance as to how the Internet works to presume that you can cause this to happen simply by shaking a legal stick at anyone with the temerity to reference an unprotected piece of software up for public access. The problem is on your end and not in the published work we're merely citing on our web site. Regards, - Jordan Hubbard From: "OTL Web Page" <otl@uts.cc.utexas.edu> Subject: ACITS LPR Remote Printing Software REMOVE DIRECT DOWNLOAD LINK!! Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 15:27:50 -0500 > Greetings, > It has come to our attention that a site under your guidance is infringing > upon copyright laws owned by the University of Texas @ Austin. The page in > question is > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/corp-net-guide/x146.html . > We request that you immediately remove the direct download link for the > ACITS LPR Remote Printing software. Distribution of the software to > unregistered users is a violation of The University's copyright. The > University routinely pursues copyright infringement and will seek legal > remedy where appropriate. > > I thank you for your prompt attention to this matter. > Please send confirmation of your compliance. Thank you. > > Kat Kotrla > ACITS LPR Account Manager > ******************************************************** > Intellectual Property & Technology Licensing Program > The University of Texas at Austin > 3925 West Braker Lane, Suite 1.9A > MCC Building, (Mail Code R 3500) > Austin, TX 78759 > web site: http://www.utexas.edu/academic/otl/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the messagehelp
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