Thank you, Piotr, for an extremely interesting - but shocking comment. You wrote: "Any reason you have not issued fake DMCA takedown notice against your oppressor?"
My answer to that is that "I do not know (yet)". HOW do you issue a " fake DMCA takedown notice" - and to WHOM? Terry kl. 10:51:49 UTC+2 søndag 14. oktober 2012 skrev Terry følgende: > > Two of my apps have been removed from the Google Play Store, (a free/trial > version and a pro version of the same app). > > A developer of a similar app asked for them to be removed. The reason for > removal was given as “Alleged copyright infringement (according to the > terms of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act).” > > As I could not understand that my apps had violated any of his copyrights, > I sent a DMCA counter notification to Google. > > After a few weeks, Google replied:"If we do not receive notice that the > complainant has brought a court action within 10 to 14 days, we will > reinstate the material in question." > > This made me full of hope. I assumed that it meant that Google had not > accepted the request for removal, and I did not think that the meager > economy associated with an app could be the reason to start a costly legal > action. > > After another few weeks, I received the following email from Google: “We > are in receipt of your attached counter notification letter. Upon presenting > the complainant with your counter notification letter, they responded > stating their intention to take the matter to court. We will await your > correspondence regarding the results of the court order before taking any > further action.” > > I sent them another email, pointing out that I had had no information as > to a court action, to which they replied: “Unfortunately we are unable to > assist you any further regarding this issue at this point.” > > I still have heard nothing as to a legal action, neither from Google, nor > the complainant or any court. > > So, the conclusion of this unhappy affair seems to be the following: > > if you want to remove some bothersome apps, you just have to complain to > Google that your copyrights have been violated. If they do not agree, you > just have to tell them that you intend to take the matter to court. (You > don’t have to carry it through.) Then they will remove the apps you are > asking for. > > Can it really be THIS easy to remove a competitor’s apps? > > Without any consequences? > > Or is there something I have misunderstood? > > In case anyone inside Google would care to take a closer look at this > case, the reference numbers (for removals) are *[#1121348892] and ** > [#1121348892]** *. > > Regards, Terry > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
