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This reminds me a lot of the no-ip.com case. Did anyone ever find out how that was resolved? Apparently Microsoft gave back the domains[1], but did they face an
by dlgeek 12y ago
This reminds me a lot of the no-ip.com case. Did anyone ever find out how that was resolved? Apparently Microsoft gave back the domains[1], but did they face any payments for damages or censure?
[1] http://www.noip.com/blog/2014/07/10/microsoft-takedown-details-updates/ http://www.noip.com/blog/2014/07/10/microsoft-takedown-detai...
- sadfaceunread 12y agoOut of court settlement. Microsoft and No-ip both issued press releases/updates to their original blog posts about it. No details about the settlement were released but No-IP certainly got paid.
- dsl 12y agoDetails are obviously not public, but noip did not receive any money as a result. Regardless of popular opinion on the matter, Microsoft managed to get a lot of harmful malware shut down.
- the_ancient 12y agoand the ends justify the means right? Who care how many innocent people are victimized in the process, as long as Microsoft can get some good PR it is all A-OK I bet Microsoft could shutdown all kinds of malware if we all just allow them to continually monitor all of our computers at all times....