/sigh ... Here we go again
Another site violating author intellectual property rights. :mad:
Have at 'em guys: World of Addons So far they have about 810 addons that they have scraped from wherever and uploaded to their site. According to them, they want you to sign up on their site so that you may 'claim' your addons. I guess they are hoping to get away with that old adage of "It's easier to ask for forgiveness [after the fact], than for permission [beforehand]." As always, if there is anything we can do to help you guys, just let us know. *starts rooting around for the old C&D and DMCA take down templates* |
Is this really TenTonHammer or is that an ad at the bottom of the page?
I thought they were somewhat respectable? |
I got an email from them about a month ago that asked me to opt in. It seemed like a pretty obvious automated spam message so I ignored it, but a lot of good that did me.
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Also a site called AllAddon, which in my eyes is a bit worse.
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Yeah, sorry about that. We weren't informed of them spamming everyone for a while, so they were able to get a bunch of PMs out. Sorry. =/ |
Well, I seem to have been ignored on both sites so far, but have on Scott's behalf asked worldofaddons to either take down the nUI files they have belonging to him until they get his permission or link to the official download page here. Alladdon has an author page set up for him so not 100% sure that he didn't give permission there.
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The site's by Ten Ton Hammer - you would think they've been around long enough to know better. It looks like they scraped the downloads from Curse, since SM-Blizzard is the only addon of mine that they've got. And they don't list author names at all unless they happened to pick up a commit log from Curse as well. argh
Saiket: I didn't get any such email, but I don't have my email address out there for my addons. In which case, I didn't reply to "opt-in" either. Qupe: It really looks to be Ten Ton Hammer. The "About Us" and "Legal" links go to that site and the copyright is the same company that owns Ten Ton Hammer. I contacted them using the "Contact Us" link at the bottom of the page with this message: Quote:
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I don't see contact info for the other site p3lim linked. Could someone post it if they find it? I have to get a few things ready before the first day of school (with kids) tomorrow.
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That would explain why they don't have any of mine yet as I don't host on curse now and had mine removed from there.
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For anyone that wants, here's the thread that has the sample DMCA take down notice: http://www.wowinterface.com/forums/s...ad.php?t=22595
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Here are the relevant URLs and contact information. They're not linked to avoid giving them page rank on Google/other search engines, so you'll have to copy and paste.
alladdon.com No contact informating is listed on the site, but the administrative contact for the domain name is listed as [email protected], and the website is hosted by EraNet, who can be contacted at [email protected] or by other means listed on www.eranet.com/customer/contact.net. worldofaddons.com A number of email addresses are listed on their "About Us" page at www.tentonhammer.com/aboutus. You can also contact them through the "Claim An Addon" page at www.worldofaddons.com/claim. You can contact their web host (Convoke) at [email protected] or mail it to the address listed on their www.convoke.com/Contact_Us page. I also contacted Razer at [email protected] and informed them what the douchebags at TenTonHammer were using their products to promote. Not sure whether they need approval from Razer to use their brand and products that way or not, though. Also added both sites to the "Unauthorized Addon Sites" thread over on WowAce: http://forums.wowace.com/showthread.php?t=16062 |
Phanx: Let me know if any way of removing addons from alladdon will work.
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I've sent them a DMCA takedown notice, I'll let you know if I get an answer from them.
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The person that was responsible for addons.hotwow.com is also the person responsible for alladdon.com.
A simple who.is search confirmed that. http://www.who.is/domain_archive-com/hotwow.com/ http://www.who.is/domain_archive-com/alladdon.com/ |
I got a mail from them, too, but with a slightly different text than the one Saiket posted:
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Which is so completely wrong ...
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I like how they have a whole page on their site just for claiming that all the "original" material on the site is copyrighted by them, but they apparently have no idea how copyright actually works.
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They must have some clue, seeing as they trademarked their "main attraction".
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