Microsoft Drops DMCA complaint against Cryptome

Microsoft Drops DMCA complaint against Cryptome

news.cnet.com

Microsoft has withdrawn a copyright complaint against the Cryptome site over its publication of internal Microsoft guidelines for how the software giant can provide user data to law enforcement.

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Was Microsoft trying to flex some muscles and scare future people from leaking sensitive documents, or was Microsoft's compliant baseless and false?

I think they were flexing their muscles and trying to scare future leakers to think twice before sharing leaked information. I could be wrong, but that's what big corporations like Microsoft do.



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Does that mean cryptome still have the links they got in trouble in the first place?

Originally posted by JahKinG SouLJaH
Does that mean cryptome still have the links they got in trouble in the first place?

Yes. The article says that Cryptome site is back up and that Microsoft will no longer pursue Cryptome in taking the articles down.