As P2PForums first reported over a year ago, TrustFiles is anything but ‘trusty’. They continue to violate the GPL with their software. The leader of the company Marc Freedman is much better at issuing press releases then he is at bringing his users quality software.
Slyck reported yesterday Marc is at it with the press releases again. This time he has decided to make TrustyFiles safe in light of the recent Supreme Court ruling. When users install TrustyFiles they now receive this warning.
”TrustyFiles is legal software. However it can be used illegally. Some files, such as popular music, movies, and software, are protected by a copyright. It is illegal in the United States and many countries to infringe copyrights by downloading or sharing such files. Please use TrustyFiles responsibly and respect copyrighted content.”
Well that’s a pretty good try Marc, however maybe you should have removed some screenshots from your site that are a bit more incriminating. http://www.trustyfiles.com/images/scrn-dl.gif Back Up and http://www.trustyfiles.com/images/scrn-files.gif Back Up Both of those screen shots (still found on the trusty files website, for now at least) clearly advertise that TrustyFiles can be used for the exchange of copyrighted works. This is the exact same thing that caused the Supreme Court to rule against Grokster and Streamcast.
So Marc has set himself up for what could be millions of dollars in damages if the RIAA and Co. ever decides to go after him. And cleaning up his act now will not matter. While I hate to be anti-P2P in any way, I would not be sad to see them go after this particular outfit. While I’m anything but a fan of Grokster and Morpheus they have both at least added ‘something’ to p2p as a whole. Marc’s TrustyFiles has done nothing but steal the code of open source projects and claim it as their own, and piggy back on open source projects in general. All in the hope of making a few bucks.
Marc we see you coming a mile away, we know you are not in this for any reason besides hoping to become a legit distributor of DRM locked content, or at least milk what money you can out of
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