Brilliant Digital Entertainment and Altnet are still trying to come up with ways to make money out of their TrueNames DRM project.
Their latest efforts look remarkably like a phishing exercise, almost akin to those Nigerian scams in which industrious scribes send out messages meant to hook the unwary into paying for, well, nothing.
In Altnet’s case, an industrious lawyer has been sending out circulars designed to hook the unwary and/or unwise into paying for, well, nothing.
‘Grossly Overreaching’
It’s a bizarre campaign targeting P2P operators such as BearShare, Limewire, MashBoxx and Shareaza, but also taking in relatively unknown firms such as How2Share Technologies, a small Canadian company marketing PiXPO software for a picture-sharing network, and Israel’s P2M (Peer2Mail), a P2P application which allows people with Web e-mail accounts such as Gmail, Walla and Yahoo (Nasdaq: YHOO) Latest News about Yahoo to store files on them.
Entertainment lawyer Jay Flemma, who’s consulting with companies who’ve received the Altnet patent letter, told me, “I believe they [Altnet] are grossly overreaching in attempting to turn the world of IP into the wild, wild west and effectively mug these companies by trying to make them pay for something … which they do not have the rights to defend or prosecute.”
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