Programmers and web-designers always re-use their code. It's often as good as a finger print. That's how I tracked down the guy who brought down and wreaked the SlideME servers last summer. Once I had his name, it was easy to find out who was behind him.
So if you want to know who did the work for android-leak, do some google searches on parts of their html and put the puzzle together. I ran some searches and the number of people is rather narrow. Shane On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 5:31 AM, plusminus <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi guys, > > when I returned from my vacation I realized a 'sudden' drop (50%) in > sales of my application AndCam3D ( > http://www.cyrket.com/package/org.anddev.andcam3d > ) > > Having activated the 'Copy Protection' I first did not think of piracy > and not being aware of the possibility to easily circumvent even the > CopyProtection, I did a quick google search on "AndCam3D" ( > http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=andcam3d ) and just on the second > page I found the following: > http://android-leak.com/applications/andcam-3d-1-3/ > > I was struck by what I saw! > > 5 links to different file-hosters: > DepositFiles: http://depositfiles.com/files/kwldtfwis > zSHARE http://www.zshare.net/download/6469090898da396f/ > Megaupload: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=67WJUDUU > Rapidshare: > http://rapidshare.com/files/271793746/org.anddev.andcam3d.rar.html > and another one where I could not yet get the file deleted. > > When I tested the offered version and it was actually working very > well, I got really angry and did a quick whois lookup: > http://whois.domaintools.com/android-leak.com > > I found a wild combination of China, Seychelles and Turkey. But > obviously the owner (who btw doesn't find those files on the net, but > even uploads the files to the file-hosters by himself (you can see > users requesting newer versions, and he responds) > Also see the FAQ: > ####################### > Q: What I have to do when all Downloadlinks are death? > A: Please post a comment to the concerned App or Game. Then we try to > upload them again, as fast as we could. > ####################### > ) is from Germany! You can see that by the links to German websites > ( http://nichts-zutun.de/ , http://piratenpartei.de/ (now removed), > the second one is a German party I am thinking of voting for...o_O ) > > The funny thing is that there is neither an Imprint or a Contact-mail, > which is also not legal in Germany... > > So if you sell an app and you find it on his site, either contact your > lawyer, or write an really mad comment (like I did) in English (or > German, as I did) AND request removal of the files due to copyright > infringement with the file-hosters. Most of them will listen within > 24h. > > Let me know what you think and what could be done to bring this site > down. > > Best Regards, > Nicolas Gramlich > # anddev.org | Worlds largest Android Developer Community > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
