2008/11/20 Kurt Fitzner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kfitzner@excelcia.org">kfitzner@excelcia.org</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I am the author of a disk imaging utility called SelfImage. It seems<br>
that a fly-by-night web site offering a product called "Witsoft Drive<br>
Backup 8" has been actually selling SelfImage. The screen shots they<br>
show of their "product" look substantially different than my program,<br>
and they mention features SelfImage doesn't have.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>How do you know it's your software? Have you purchased what they sell?<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Now, from a legal standpoint, while this is certainly fraudulent to the<br>
end purchaser, my take is that the only standing I would have to<br>
complain would be regarding them distributing my software without at<br>
least a written offer of the source code.<br>
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Even finding out who they are is likely to be painful. The web sites<br>
they operate from seem to change rapidly (<a href="http://wit-soft.com" target="_blank">wit-soft.com</a> was the original<br>
site, now it's <a href="http://wiitsoft.com" target="_blank">wiitsoft.com</a>), and there are of course no names or phone<br>
numbers anywhere. The only way I can think of to find out who they are<br>
is to go after the money trail - find out who the software<br>
registration/payment company they use is sending the money to. This<br>
will require some legal action. I would like to do what I can, but I<br>
certainly don't have the resources to hire a lawyer.<br>
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My questions are, does <a href="http://gpl-violations.org" target="_blank">gpl-violations.org</a> help with this sort of thing?<br>
Do they operate outside of Germany? Are there any other ideas on how<br>
to track down a real person at this "witsoft"?<br>
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Any advice I can get would be appreciated.<br>
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Regards,<br>
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Kurt Fitzner<br>
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