XDA vs Microsoft Redux: Hoax or Legit? (Update)

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To refresh, back a few months some letters went out to XDA regarding their hosting of custom ROMs containing WM6.five. Then it appeared to many of us that this was some hoax, specifically the legitimacy of ane "James Immature"...internet investigator! (dun dun...dun!) came into question.

Wink forward a few months and replace WM6.five with WM6.5.1 and we get a (redacted) letter basically saying the same thing.

Real or false?

Nosotros remember this is fake, again. Unless Microsoft has radically inverse its position on this issue from a few months agone, we see no reason to believe these threats. Once once more, we cite Microsoft from March:

"Taking activeness against sites such as XDA-Developers isn't a matter of concern for Microsoft" says Maarten Sonneveld of Microsoft Netherlands against tweakers.net. "What happens there, the modifying of ROMs, is illegal. The intellectual property however is not with us. The ROMs are intellectual holding of the producers of the telephone or the mobile phone providers if it concerns branded telephones. We simple only deliver the OS."

Going further and across the pond, we note that PPCGeeks has not received any such notice regarding WM6.5.1, which seems pretty lame for a "clamp downward" (although we suppose that some fake messages could be sent out right-quick).

Our advice? Treat this seriously, but not too seriously. How to do that? Uncomplicated: if your receive a "have down discover" from...some dude via email, we strongly suggest you really get in contact with that person BY PHONE and request official information (who they correspond, names, more phone numbers, etc.) before you rip down your hard work.

Most DMCA notices target the Internet service provider who so contact you, equally you lot are not actually hosting the alleged offending file. If they don't even know your real name, you don't have too much to worry about.

Update: Mike (Wideawake) of PPCGeeks let us know that indeed, months agone they too had a asking from Microsoft to take down WM6.5 just...he actually had a phone call from a Judy Weston at Microsoft and his Internet access provider received a accept-downwardly find. That is what one should expect in these situations. Thanks Mike!

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