Anti-Virus Vendor AVG Subpoenas Information on Counterfeiters
Jim Carr writes on SC Magazine US:
Anti-virus vendor Grisoft has filed subpoenas requesting that Google, Microsoft and Yahoo provide it with the identities of advertisers it claims are fraudulently promoting the company's products via sponsored text ads on search engines.More here.
Grisoft, which does business as AVG, filed the subpoenas in Seattle district court under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
In addition, because the registration information for the alleged con sites used by the advertisers is not publicly available, Grisoft has requested the same sort of information from domain-name registrar GoDaddy, where the websites for several of the fraudulent site operators are registered.
To date, none of the companies has provided Grisoft "with accurate, up-to-date information regarding the identities of the entities behind the fake sites," the company said in a prepared statement this week.
posted by Fergie @ 12/21/2007 10:02:00 AM
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