HTC sends a C&D? WTF

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Andreaboy

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HTC has decided to send conflipper a cease and desist letter. What's their problem? For years they've allowed their phones to be hacked and modded now they want it to stop. The mod community is probably the biggest reason why they are popular now. Is it just me or is this bs?

http://shipped-roms.com/?p=180
 
I was thinking the same thing. I bet verizon, sprint, and other large carriers are giving htc hell because that site posts official roms for particular carriers.
 
Its coming to light at the same time htc's aria is coming out for AT&T, the only carrier that is blocking sideloading apps from the internet. Custom roms are already disabling this feature and im sure this plays some part. Im also not very worried about it.
 
HTC's code is not open source or free, so yes they're technically stealing their IP. They were at least nice enough to issue a C&D, most companies would just sue.

Nothing more to see here, it's normal operating procedure. I've had more C&D's then I care to count.
 
Screw it. I also feel that is is completely BS that HTC would send a C&D when they have such a large developer following. Hopefully they will realize that.

Carriers are probably giving them crap... which is probably why the Incredible and other devices recently were a little harder to root. Who knows. I am impressed more and more lately by Motorola's upcoming devices.

We will see where this HTC vs Motorola Android battle goes...

[also, as Scythe said... they are lucky to not get sued. C&D are no big deal compared to going to court against a huge corporation. I wish HTC would drop their stupid custom UI sense stuff now that stock Android is becoming better and better every version]
 
I wonder if HTC has set a precedent towards losing their right to complain since they have known about all the mods and have not complained until now (if this is even an actual legitimate C&D).
 
If find it a bit odd that:

a) It's not a signed for or otherwise recorded letter. I can't speak for the US, but here in the UK legal documents like that are hand delivered by either a courier, the police, or other such legal personnel, and you always have to sign for them.

b) It's sent as an email to an address that may not be monitored, may have such emails filtered as spam or probably gets hundreds of spam emails every day making any real emails hard to spot, may not have all emails read if it gets a lot of traffic, yet it threatens legal action in two weeks on the assumption he will actually have read it. I doubt that's enforceable.

c) It's not sent from their US headquarters which are just along the road from the guy, but from Taiwan.

d) Despite being sent from Taiwan, it's written in very good English.
 
I'd get these all the time (when I ran file sharing sites and contributed to file sharing protocols). What happens is you get an email, with the scanned copy attached in pdf form. About 2 or 3 weeks later, he'll get a hard copy in the mail. They're typically signed, he probably wasn't able to copy/paste it directly.

I'd get lots of C&D's from companies like Fifa -- in which they would come from overseas. The thing is, they have counsel which represents them in the US (and other countries). In HTC's case, HTC USA is who would actually sue them if they didn't comply. If they distribute a phone in a country, they have legal counsel to back them there -- guranteed.

Anyway, not much you can do here. I'd drop the rom's and move on with life. Not worth the lawsuit.
 
The ability to load custom roms was probably one of the biggest reasons why I opted for the N1 over any other phone, including the iPhone which was my last phone.

I hope HTC isn't taking a page out of apple's restrictive, and closed approach.

Only time will tell if HTC is going to get serious about this and then go after XDA.
 
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