Hello,
i was curious why there are more&more new users looking for help in the forum
referring to Mixxx as "Digital DJ pro" or "DJ Pro".
A quick search brings up http://www.freeze.com/download/Audio/Digital-DJ-Pro
and http://www.music-oasis.com/download/Audio/Digital-DJ-Pro .
They only changed the "About" splashscreen & the default skin to an own crappy
one.
Windows users are tricked into downloading a "download manager" which pulls the
rebranded Mixxx 1.7.0 to the users computer.
The downloader drops additional payloads such as browser toolbars, changes that
browser startpage and set cookies that look like measurement for a kind of
revenue sharing program.
EXAMPLE:
ProductSessionId=ab106995-89bf-4c79-a0a9-d16f367893413077&VersionId=-1&Tracking=0&SessionTime=1/3/2010
5:22:38
AM&CampaignID=127849&ShortName=digitaldj&LeadmanSessionId=14c97e18-8069-41e5-9921-106995&PingRestrictionsRecorded=1&Membership=0.
If the download stats on freeze.com are correct over 400000 ppl downloaded
already...
Is it legal under the GPL to reuse Mixxx in that manner?
jus
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