Suspended due to Copyright Infringement

[esjayus]

I should not have been suspended, seeing as I did not infringe on anyones copyright.

 

[Livewire]

Given that it's a manual suspension there's not a lot we can do, however I do have one question.

What's in FF7NES.zip?

 

[esjayus]

Given that it's a manual suspension there's not a lot we can do, however I do have one question.

What's in FF7NES.zip?

A homebrew NES game. The only thing I can think of that could've gotten me reported is having someones contact info, so people can get into contact with the artist that the info belongs to.

On another note, the reason I opened the support ticket is due to the suspension telling me to, if I had a problem with it.

 

[Livewire]

Running a re-review right now.

 

[esjayus]

Thanks. Believe me, with how many days of work i've put into fine-tuning my forum and blog, I wouldn't risk hosting copyrighted material.

 

[Livewire]

Shoutbox on IPB, IPB's not free software, but the part that's showing the copyright infringement is the Test subfolder - why exactly is there a copy of the Apple Quicktime download page in there?

Heres some pieces of it:

 <meta name="Author" content="Apple Inc." />
<title>Apple - QuickTime - Download</title>
        <meta name="omni_page" content="QuickTime - Download" />
        <meta name="Category" content="products" />
        <meta name="Description" content="Download QuickTime 7 Player free for PC and Mac. Upgrade to QuickTime 7$
        <script src="http://images.apple.com/global/scripts/lib/prototype.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf$
        <script src="http://images.apple.com/global/scripts/lib/scriptaculous.js" type="text/javascript" charset=$
        <script src="http://images.apple.com/global/scripts/browserdetect.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf$
        <script src="http://images.apple.com/global/scripts/apple_core.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"$
        <script src="http://images.apple.com/global/scripts/search_decorator.js" type="text/javascript" charset="

Your site isn't Apples, so why is there so much stuff of Apple's being hotlinked from a file on your account?

Edit: And for that matter why is there a Quicktime_Update.exe and download.mov in there? I'm having an extremely difficult time believing that wasn't a poor attempt at phishing or installing malware to unsuspecting users systems. There really isn't any reason to have a page masquerading as Apple's on your account. Ever.

 

[esjayus]

Shoutbox on IPB, IPB's not free software, but the part that's showing the copyright infringement is the Test subfolder - why exactly is there a copy of the Apple Quicktime download page in there?

Heres some pieces of it:

 <meta name="Author" content="Apple Inc." />
<title>Apple - QuickTime - Download</title>
        <meta name="omni_page" content="QuickTime - Download" />
        <meta name="Category" content="products" />
        <meta name="Description" content="Download QuickTime 7 Player free for PC and Mac. Upgrade to QuickTime 7$
        <script src="http://images.apple.com/global/scripts/lib/prototype.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf$
        <script src="http://images.apple.com/global/scripts/lib/scriptaculous.js" type="text/javascript" charset=$
        <script src="http://images.apple.com/global/scripts/browserdetect.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf$
        <script src="http://images.apple.com/global/scripts/apple_core.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"$
        <script src="http://images.apple.com/global/scripts/search_decorator.js" type="text/javascript" charset="

Your site isn't Apples, so why is there so much stuff of Apple's being hotlinked from a file on your account?

Edit: And for that matter why is there a Quicktime_Update.exe and download.mov in there? I'm having an extremely difficult time believing that wasn't a poor attempt at phishing or installing malware to unsuspecting users systems. There really isn't any reason to have a page masquerading as Apple's on your account. Ever.

It was a test, following a youtube video, which shows the .mov subtitle exploit. Here is a link to the youtube video. The file is caught by anti-virus software while downloading anyway. If I were to try something malicious, I wouldn't use my personal domain, which has all of my private info in the registrar. Link to youtube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8oOSADh0h4
The exploit is caught by every anti-virus, including Microsoft Security Essential, Norton, Kaspersky. I can give you the source to that executable, proving it is not malicious either. It only opens a ribbonform stating that it was a test.

As a professional programmer, why would I bother with a 'poor attempt'? The reason for me using a free webhost was to save money.

 

[Livewire]

It was a test, following a youtube video, which shows the .mov subtitle exploit. Here is a link to the youtube video. The file is caught by anti-virus software while downloading anyway. If I were to try something malicious, I wouldn't use my personal domain, which has all of my private info in the registrar. Link to youtube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8oOSADh0h4
The exploit is caught by every anti-virus, including Microsoft Security Essential, Norton, Kaspersky. I can give you the source to that executable, proving it is not malicious either. It only opens a ribbonform stating that it was a test.

As a professional programmer, why would I bother with a 'poor attempt'? The reason for me using a free webhost was to save money.

So you intentionally uploaded an exploit to our servers?

Excuse me, I just want to make sure I get this right. You uploaded an exploit, KNOWING it was an exploit, and you wasted our time having to go back and look and see what it was?

From our Acceptable Use Policy:
* is otherwise malicious, fraudulent, or may result in retaliation against x10Hosting by offended viewers.

Your site is the kind of site that gets x10hosting blacklisted at McAfee. You will not be unsuspended. Ever.

 

[esjayus]

So you intentionally uploaded an exploit to our servers?

Excuse me, I just want to make sure I get this right. You uploaded an exploit, KNOWING it was an exploit, and you wasted our time having to go back and look and see what it was?

From our Acceptable Use Policy:
* is otherwise malicious, fraudulent, or may result in retaliation against x10Hosting by offended viewers.

Your site is the kind of site that gets x10hosting blacklisted at McAfee. You will not be unsuspended. Ever.

I wouldn't say it's malicious if it doesn't do anything malicious. You quoted 'malicious, fraudulent'. It's not malicious at all. Malicious; Of, pertaining to, or as a result of malice or spite; Deliberately harmful; spiteful.

My site is why? Good try at making you sound important, but yeah, no one's believing you. The reason why you had the proxy epidemic is due to the attitude of you staff.

 

[Livewire]

You didn't read the line I quoted clearly, and I don't appreciate -your- attitude to us.

"or may result in retaliation against x10Hosting by offended viewers."

Anyone without an antivirus would complain to us about your exploit. McAfee would blacklist our website, as would Norton, preventing their users from viewing any x10hosting pages again. This counts as retaliation. You will not be unsuspended.


Course my reply's kinda useless since you're now unable to view this, but this is more an advisory to anyone else who wants to try the same thing again - do not use us for your exploit testing or hosting.