"Muso TNT Limited" appears to be targeting Mediafire in a big way.

Searching on that company name gets a ton of hits, mostly regarding music/movie infringements on Mediafire. Its where the name "Muso" comes in, I guess. What I'd really like to know is, what is so special about the term "System 7"?

I really recommend that Mediafire should be dropped as a company worth uploading to or buying any interest in. As I see it, "Muso TNT Limited" says jump and Mediafire jumps as high as it can.

Well its seems to me that you can put anything on mediafire with that focused name that they are targeting and mediafire will take it down....It also seems that with the pricing plan that Muso has they might be trying to meet a quota of sorts to claim rent for that month..
http://www.muso.com/home/pricing/

So its all about money and the included free file removals per month?

Step1: Create a big paper tiger threatening your customers.
Step2: Tell them you will save their bacon for a small fee.
Step3: Collect the money.

Someone might do them a favour and upload some files with the names in question accordingly.

Searching on that company name gets a ton of hits, mostly regarding music/movie infringements on Mediafire. Its where the name "Muso" comes in, I guess. What I'd really like to know is, what is so special about the term "System 7"?

Muso is a copyright enforcement agency headquartered in London, England. System 7 is an ambient dance band from London, England.

It also seems that with the pricing plan that Muso has they might be trying to meet a quota of sorts

Ugh, they're not even looking at the files or descriptions, just having their bot issue takedowns wherever a Mediafire link shares a page with the words "System 7". Imagine the carnage if they represented the band "Stars" or the show "House"...

Someone might do them a favour and upload some files with the names in question accordingly.

The filename doesn't even enter into this. Just posting a comment that reads "System 7!" might be enough to trigger the removal of any Mediafire file linked from any page on the internet that accepts comments.

Here's yet another Mac site that got hit: http://system608.wordpress.com/2012/03/15/copyright/

I really recommend that Mediafire should be dropped as a company worth uploading to or buying any interest in. As I see it, "Muso TNT Limited" says jump and Mediafire jumps as high as it can.

Welcome to the post-Megaupload world. The cyberlockers that didn't voluntarily shut themselves down are terrified of being next in the crosshairs.

Folks, if you plan to enter "xxx 7" into your keyboard, write "Mac OS 7" instead of.

It would be hard to fight the take down without being the actual owner of the copyright for the file. Abandonware is not copyright free. We just hope nobody care.

Has someone received one of those Muso letters for something he created yet?

In a way, even Apple should have an issue with Muso claiming copyright of "System 7".

Yeah, that's a circle around. Apple Corp claimed Apple Computer to not move into music business, but I wonder why Apple Computer not claimed that 'xxx 7' musical band ambient dance band (thanks, Dax) to not use this name, because Apple Computer named the operating system the same.

Using "SSW 7" sound fine.

Files named "Alpha-Delta-Two-point-something" are taken down too right now.
Just to let you know. I dont think there can be done much about it.

Radius81, please let us know if/what happens.

Other threads about the same theme:

MacGarden/Emulation & Support/holy-s§§t

MacGarden/General discussion/Choosing other recommended file hosting sites better than MediaFire

Muso TNT, please sue the automotive company and the city mentioned in this song as well:
Youtube/Ferrari - Monza 1976
They should no longer firm under there names.

Got another one for you, Muso is not alone. Seems there are issues with Sierra Alfa Romeo Alfa Hotel too:

MediaFire has received notification under the provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA") that your usage of a file is allegedly infringing on the file creator's copyright protection.

The file named Sarah 8.7a6c2.img.sit is identified by the key (y0kvd4gv18kzugd).

As a result of this notice, pursuant to Section 512(c)(1)(C) of the DMCA, we have suspended access to the file.

The reason for suspension was:

Notice of Infringement via Email Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation P.O. Box 900 Los Angeles, CA 90035 10/10/2012 mediafire.com http://www.mediafire.com Dear mediafire.com: I, the undersigned, confirm under penalty of perjury that I am an authorized agent of Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation and/or its subsidiaries and affiliated companies ("Fox") and am authorized to act on Fox's behalf in this matter. I am writing to notify you of the infringement of Fox's intellectual property rights on your site as identified below and demand that you take immediate action to permanently stop the infringing conduct. I have a good faith belief that the links / files identified in the attached addendum (below) are examples of links / files available through your site that are not authorized by Fox, any of its agents or the law, and therefore infringe Fox's rights. On behalf of Fox, I demand that you immediately remove and disable these links / files. To the extent that multiple different copies of the infringed copyrighted work identified in the subject line above can be found on and through your service, you are required to act expeditiously to remove or disable access to all such infringing copies. This email is not a complete statement of Fox's rights in connection with this matter, and nothing contained herein constitutes an express or implied waiver of any rights, remedies, or defenses of Fox in connection with this matter, all of which are expressly reserved. I may be contacted at: Email: antipiracy@dtecnet.com Sincerely, DtecNet If you have some issues please reply to info.antipiracy@dtecnet.com, reply to no-reply@dtecnet.com will be ignored. Addendum to Notice of Infringement TOUCH (2012) - List of Allegedly Infringing Links: http://mediafire.com/?e5b7zoo88xw3lot

Information about the party that filed the report:

Company Name: DtecNet
Contact Address: P.O. Box 900 Los Angeles, CA 90035
Contact Name: DtecNet
Contact Phone:
Contact Email: antipiracy@dtecnet.com

Copyright infringement violates MediaFire's Terms of Service. MediaFire accounts that experience multiple incidents of alleged copyright infringement without viable counterclaims may be terminated.

This is utterly ridiculous. How could anybody hold a copyright of the word Sierra Alfa Romeo Alfa Hotel?
Bravo Uniform Lima Lima Sierra Hotel Indiana Tango.

As I said, the end. My account at MF is down like many other´s accounts too. (46GB or so I guess)
Lets hope that the rest of us will slip through or backed up files to wired or elsewhere in time.
Sorry for all the dead links, mods and admins. When I started uploading my old stuff, I thought it a good idea to UL only once to MF, hoping that somebody would archive the worthy files in the Garden.
Looking back, a rather silly idea.
Telling from the DL counters some files were taken over 100 times, so I´m confident, everything can be restored in a common effort if needed.

This affects our entries regarding Sierra?

No idea, is Fox related to Sierra or just the same?

I can't even tell what's going on with this one. The infringement notice mentions "TOUCH (2012)", suggesting Fox's show starring Kiefer Sutherland, but the allegedly infringing link is cited here as an MP3 of "U Can't Touch This" as heard on "The Glee Project" (which is produced by Sony and broadcast by NBC's Oxygen channel).

How a Mac OS beta got caught up in any of this... who even knows. Big Media is now blindly spraying machine gun fire in all directions, trying to make it as painful as possible to use or operate a file hosting site.

That's why some of us have killed all the "System 7" phrases out of this site.

I think you're right. There must be a large set of keywords and Muso must have free access to searh all files and remove them at the click of a button. MegaUpload offered similar powers to the seven studios who now persecute him - don't know who they are, this was part of his defence in earlier court hearings here, that the studios have been able to remove suspect uploads with the click of a button.
Anyway I suspect that Muso have similar powers. I suspect that they perform regular searches for these keywords, and that they remove everything they find. I also suspect that they rely on the uploader to complain about incorrectly removed material to remove the "false positives", which either they or the file hoster (at a cost to Muso) will replace.
So it becomes our duty (to freedom, democracy and the right to fre speech) to register a complaint over each file incorrectly removed. The cost of putting back, say 80% of the files they remove, will cost more than any revenue they will generate.
It may go so far as those who have had to ask for numerous files to be replaced, with no real copyright material removed, will ask for compensation on a time and materials basis for the effort involved in requesting the files are replaced.

Also, in this site, all of the Publisher and Author are changed for example: "Apple Computer Inc." into "Apple".

any info on the bots they use? can we trap them in infinite loops?

We should also sticky this.

We are not alone, check out this travesty with the Minecraft community: http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/109484-128x-64x-32x-16x-132-adriorns...

I have space left on my GD. I can host the files there, if you want.