Closed
Bug 624296
Opened 12 years ago
Closed 8 years ago
mozilla.es offers Fx/Tb modified binaries which ask to pay for their usage
Categories
(Marketing :: Trademark Violations, task, P2)
Marketing
Trademark Violations
Tracking
(Not tracked)
RESOLVED
WORKSFORME
People
(Reporter: Nukeador, Assigned: liz)
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Details
(Whiteboard: legal working on it)
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Adding Barbara to know how to proceed.
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Comment 2•12 years ago
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This is a screenshot from the modified installer which ask the user to send a SMS to be able to continue.
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Comment 3•12 years ago
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More information. The company behind this site: http://begreat.es/secciones/equipo-directivo.html (Which are also founders of very important sites in Spain as softonic.com and infojobs.com) Auto-translated page from their "Terms and conditions page": http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=es&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=es&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fmozilla.es%2Fterminos-y-condiciones&act=url
adding tomcat who has been looking into these cases and worked with legal on figuring out if we can take action against them or not.
Comment 5•12 years ago
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Hi Nukeador, looking into this!
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Comment 6•12 years ago
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Softonic inform us that Alex Serena is no longer related with them since 2000. Here his twitter account: http://twitter.com/axelserena I will try to contact him and ask about this site.
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Comment 7•12 years ago
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Some comments from users helping us: "The problem is that the terms and conditions of use makes it clear that what sells is not the program, but: - Technical support 24 hours online every day. - Virus Control to verify that the files are free from any kind of malware. - Review daily discharge and guarantee availability of it. The installer that you download charge you for an alleged service and it downloads firefox. The icons are not the official ones, but others inspired by them." The Trademark violation here would be just for the website, in case they don't redistribute modified binaries and just a "downloaded" which downloads the official installer.
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Comment 8•12 years ago
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Tomcat, if you need more help, like translating an email to Spanish or try to contact him in other ways, let me know.
Comment 9•12 years ago
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The domain was sold in a Sedo´s auction one month ago.
Comment 10•12 years ago
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mozilla.es redirects me to mozilla-europe.org. Is this solved?
Comment 11•12 years ago
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I don´t know why the domain is actually registered under my name. We are checking it with Nic.es
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Comment 12•12 years ago
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Thanks for the info Axel, we'll need a way to contact the current owners. Milos, I suppose the current owner redirected the page because the media presure we did these days, but we should contact him to transfer domain ownership to mozilla and avoid future problems.
Comment 13•12 years ago
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Nic.es is going to publish the real name of the owner in some hours.
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Comment 14•12 years ago
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(In reply to comment #13) > Nic.es is going to publish the real name of the owner in some hours. Thanks, we'll check it as soon as it's available.
Comment 15•12 years ago
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For future reference, the trademark abuse report form is here: https://www.mozilla.com/en-US/legal/fraud-report/index.html :-) Gerv
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Comment 16•12 years ago
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NIC.es now shows this new information: DETAILS Domain Name: Mozilla.es Status: Active ID: 1B3ED5-ESNIC-F5 Owner: Soledad del Valle Echegaray Email: sidusfirst@gmail.com Phone: +34 699999999 Creation date: 10/11/2005 Expiration Date: 11/10/2011 ADMINISTRATIVE CONTACT wedge ID: 1B3ED5-ESNIC-F5 Name: Soledad del Valle Echegaray Email: sidusfirst@gmail.com TECHNICAL CONTACT wedge ID:1B3ED5-ESNIC-F5 Name: Soledad del Valle Echegaray Email: sidusfirst@gmail.com DNS SERVERS ns1.dondominio.com ns2.dondominio.com
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Comment 17•12 years ago
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Some bloggers have done a research, and maybe the information could be relevant: http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=es&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=es&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.senyordelcaos.com%2F2011%2F01%2Fwwwmozillaes-estafa-2-parte.html&act=url The more interesting part is who is behind the SMS service the installed uses, a site called sharewhare.pro which technical contact (Miguel A. Martín) is maybe part of BeGreat: http://begreat.es/secciones/equipo-directivo.html Axel, could you confirm us this?
Comment 18•12 years ago
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One of our companies in an official domain registrar. Probably in some domains appears our names as technical support. We will prontly check them to avoid misunderstandings.
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Comment 19•12 years ago
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Thank you for reporting this and for all your research. The Legal team is now working on this and we'll report back.
Assignee: jmartin → liz
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Priority: -- → P2
Whiteboard: legal working on it
Comment 20•12 years ago
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Axel Serena Lobo has requested that his personal contact details be removed from this bug. Given that the WHOIS info in comment 0 is no longer current, I have hidden this comment. The comment used to say: "mozilla.es site offers Firefox and Thunderbird binaries that once installed ask the user to pay for its usage. Domain information according to NIC (authority for ES domains): <WHOIS INFO REMOVED>" Please let me know if this causes problems for anyone. Gerv
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Comment 21•11 years ago
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The domain is redirecting now to Mozilla Europe, but, has been the domain ownership transferred to mozilla?
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Comment 22•9 years ago
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The domain is not loading any more, and it seems the owner changed: Nombre del Dominio mozilla.es Estado Activado Identificador 1B3ED5-ESNIC-F5 Titular Soledad Echegaray del Valle Fecha de Alta 10-11-2005 Fecha de Caducidad 10-11-2013 Agente Registrador SCIP PERSONA DE CONTACTO ADMINISTRATIVO wedge Identificador 1B3ED5-ESNIC-F5 Nombre Soledad Echegaray del Valle Email sidusfirst@gmail.com
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Comment 23•8 years ago
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Sorry for not updating this bug. When we looked into this it turned out that it would be quite expensive to purchase the domain name. Since it was pointing at a Mozilla site we decided not to do anything except to monitor it in case problematic content was added in the future. I just checked and the site now seems to be down altogether. I'll ask outside counsel to check whether there's any change in the purchase situation, and if not, we'll just continue monitoring as we have been. I think this bug can be closed.
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 8 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
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