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.

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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.

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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.

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Source: CDRSoft

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