yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Vibrant General] Andy:
Do any of the ROMs he's hosting contain "ROM Manager" or other free "copyrighted" apps?

It may still be worth contacting his hosting company, and get his site shutdown or put under investigation.
[Vibrant General] GrainOsand:
Thats a shame... Im pretty new to android and I remember in my never ending quest for froyo I came across his youtube video and actually navigated to his site in hopes of finding a leak, he claimed to have. 5 bucks was the only thing that stopped me.... Then I found XDA and havnt looked back....BIG shout out to anyone whose helped me and others in our quest for android related knowledge!
[Vibrant General] Xan_Kriegor:
......................You have my sword.
[Vibrant General] Dan_Brutal:
The fellowship of the rom.
[Vibrant General] Dan_Brutal:
Anyone know if there any edt roms/mods/themes over there?
[Vibrant General] Master™:
Yes there are. Also, behind his donor section there are also a bunch of paid applications.
[Vibrant General] silvertag:
Just twitted to Android Community (@androids) to pass the word along on their site.
[Vibrant General] Wdave:
To be honest Going on /g/ is the wrong way of doing something like this.

http://boards.4chan.org/g/res/17562464

http://green-oval.net/cgi-board.pl/g/thread/17562464
[Vibrant General] Dan_Brutal:
Good to see you master. That makes my blood boil. I hope he gets shut down.
[Vibrant General] AdamOutler:
One heck of a douchebag.
[Vibrant General] s15274n:
Seems like a good time to point out I am not trying to harm anyone... just felt the need to point out to the community this exists, it's wrong, and we should do something about it.

I do not want people doing anything to his site/him other than things that are legal/appropriate and informing the masses of places like XDA that will be genuine and not require a $5/mth "donation" ....
[Vibrant General] ipetloudog:
can't blame a guy for trying.
[Vibrant General] Dan_Brutal:
Wow, the people on that site are bunch of dickheads.
[Vibrant General] Andy:
Just about to submit this to his web host.

Any comments/suggestions before I do?
[Vibrant General] movieaddict:
just put a warning on my fb about this guy! ty so much for the info

i really hope he gets whts coming to him...

Yah and in there forums u see people talking trash about xda WTF... noobs from hell
[Vibrant General] s15274n:
Well done Andy... I admit I know very little about licenses, but that sounds very good to me.
[Vibrant General] doubled227:
i see that he has apps that usually cost money on the android marketplace on there... that means that he's taking money out of google's pocket too... i'm sure they wouldn't like that at all.

quickly browsing through the forums... i see that there are a lot of people on there so he must have made a pretty good amount of money on there. kinda messed up.
[Vibrant General] Andy:
I've spotted the typo next to,

should read,

I've had a read through the licenses (loosely) and they say you can charge a "fee" for warranty/support. It also states that the source must be made available. I.e not hidden behind a "donation/pay wall".
[Vibrant General] Andy:
Can you provide me a list of the paid apps he has listed, if possible. :)
[Vibrant General] Wdave:
It's 4chan, they are dicks.

But going about asking for a DDoS is also a "****" move.
[Vibrant General] doubled227:
unfortunately, i would have to "donate"... and that ain't gonna happen. haha

but i see in a changelog section, he said he has an updated setcpu up... and thats $2 on the marketplace. So I can assume that this is not the oonnllyyyy paid app he has up in that section.

i'm not allowed to post a link yet so you would have to go to his website to see it. its in the "samsung vibrant room".... from there, its going to be the first link
[Vibrant General] anthonys2r:
How the heck do people even find this guy in the first place? When I wanted to information on my Vibrant when I got it, it lead me right to XDA
[Vibrant General] Andy:
No problem, I thought you had access. I've filed the complaint with his host, and they will get back to me in "due course". I'll keep you all updated.
[Vibrant General] Red_81:
I don't know if it will help anyone but here is Google Form to report copyright infringement. It would cover the paid apps from the market that he is hosting.

http://www.google.com/support/bin/request.py?contact_type=lr_dmca&product=androidmarket
[Vibrant General] Wdave:
Didn't someone say earlier in the thread that he was giving redirects to Hotfile? If so he is not breaking any laws when it comes to Warez.
[Vibrant General] Master™:
He isn't. The paid apps I last saw are directly on his site.
[Vibrant General] Red_81:
And since he uses Google Adsense, he's generating revenue by using other people's copyrighted works. It's against the rules of the Adsense program.

http://www.google.com/support/bin/request.py?contact_type=lr_dmca&product=adsense
[Vibrant General] Wdave:
You have got to be ****ting me...Words cannot express how dumb I feel from reading this.

Link to the thread.

http://www.akaskriller.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=2002
[Vibrant General] Dan_Brutal:
Wow! I have 4g??!?!?!?!?!! They have Malice over there. I sent them an email telling them to take it off there site.
[Vibrant General] s15274n:
I think it's safe to say, today is a good day for the developers, and a bad say for AkaSkriller. More needs to be done though. Continue.
[Vibrant General] shreddintyres:
http://www.akaskriller.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=37&t=1953

some support they have there
[Vibrant General] dligon:
akaskriller told me he wrote the codes for honeycomb and icecream on a speak-n-spell in an hour while blindfolded.
[Vibrant General] s15274n:
LOL, awesome.

That's all of my future responses. All of them, even if not applicable.
[Vibrant General] Dan_Brutal:
Can you get a list of roms/mods/themes?
[Vibrant General] Br1cK'd:
The last time this came up, we did not even come close to getting as organized *with constructive efforts* as we are now. We owe this to you man. Thank you. I for one, am going to buy you at least a case of that nectar of the gods, Fat Tire, as soon as I can.

Sent from my ZenDroid, meditating on the XDA App
[Vibrant General] doubled227:
i don't wanna sound like a total douche... but are any of these roms/mods/themes that are on here (one of which i'm using now and love... trigger 3.2 w/ mattedblues theme)... actually copy-written? I never actually noticed any type of disclaimer about that... maybe its part of the xdadevelopers website or any developer website and i just never knew about it. but in a court of law, i kinda don't see what's stopping him from doing this since it was free for anybody to get and do what they want with it. morally.. its a total **** move on his part. and the people who are actually paying for it are either extremely misinformed or just dumb... but i don't see how its legally wrong. maybe somebody can enlighten me about it.
[Vibrant General] s15274n:
Don't give me anything man... this is out of pure respect to a community I love.
[Vibrant General] MINUS Stl:
You sir are a DEMIGOD!
[Vibrant General] Andy:
Under the relevant licenses he's allowed to modify and re-release any code providing he provides the source freely. Which he doesn't

He is allowed to charge a fee for warranty / support but not for payment for the software.

As everything falls behind his "donation" wall, it is in breach of the relevant licenses.
[Vibrant General] Br1cK'd:
Applications can be and are copywritten. Thats why cyanogen does not include google apps. Google was seeking to prosecute wes based on the inclusion of their apps in cm roms. To circvent that, he removes them.

Nobody here is claiming copywrite to the roms themselves, but it is against the android (apache) licensing agreement that the software cannot be sold, or hosted behind donator only links. Thats where his site hits a legal barrier. I am no lawyer by any means, but if you read the licensing agreement, his hosting the way it is, is bad juju.

Sent from my ZenDroid, meditating on the XDA App
[Vibrant General] kawika:
OP - Can you please post a "Sample twitt" Honestly I'm just a lazy turd and would rather copy/paste it if possible. sorry:(

akaskriller - "I would've gotten away with it if it hadn't been for those meddling kids.":mad:
[Vibrant General] Wdave:
No these things don't have "Copyrights" on them but they are protected by other laws like GPL and similar laws and licences.
[Vibrant General] laylovj:
Really? I guess that 'feature' was added when I posted something on his "GB" thread. I got an ipban. lul
[Vibrant General] s15274n:
Haha, I had already added one prior to your post :)
[Vibrant General] s15274n:
SWEET!

Add AndroidSPIN to the list of sites that posted the article!!

ARTICLE can be found here (much respect for them too)
[Vibrant General] movieaddict:
GREAT ARTICLE! on android spin way to go
[Vibrant General] s15274n:
Wish I could go and edit these things... the typos are KILLING me.

I also wish it stated it was $5/month.... sounds like a one time thing (poorly written by me).
[Vibrant General] Andy:
Nice, I will add this to the ticket I opened with his host, I'll also forward the relevant details to Gameloft.
[Vibrant General] s15274n:
Gameloft JUST started getting into the Market....

They will HATE this guy.

Wish I could hit thanks to you and your efforts!
[Vibrant General] Andy:
Gameloft contacted.
[Vibrant General] s15274n:
Thread was moved to the Captivate forums... no clue why...
[Vibrant General] movieaddict:
why did this disappear from the vibrant section???
[Vibrant General] itstheshawnp:
sorry i posted the thread about the so-called "working" gps for the "2.3.2" rom akaskriller "made". i did not see this article beforehand. just my random daily browsing of xda. i came across that thread which was made today in the general section and was curious as to how he got the gps to "work".

i figured id share, but now i know better. i was thinking that it could have been a build.prop edit (super easy), but didnt know this guy was already known for ripping off people and stealing other devs hard work.

so again...sorry for that post.

heres to hoping for a fully functional gb rom soon.
[Vibrant General] Andy:
Quick reply from Gameloft

Oh yes, now its happening.
[Vibrant General] pulser_g2:
There was a mix-up and another mod moved it to the wrong area, but I've moved it back.
[Vibrant General] s15274n:
Do NOT apologize man... I made this thread to try and prevent stuff like this from happening. At least you didn't give him money!
[Vibrant General] s15274n:
Best post. Period.

Give this guy some thanks, I'm out today.
[Vibrant General] ipetloudog:
High fives everybody.

Don't leave me hangin.

p.s. gameloft is pretty much gonna pwn this kid. good work.
[Vibrant General] Br1cK'd:
Yes, that is exactly what we needed to happen. One corporation or another to get involved and hopefully throw some lawyers at this guy.

Sent from my ZenDroid, meditating on the XDA App
[Vibrant General] shreddintyres:
we need to some how get in contact with google to allow google to contact all the relevant developers, and let them pick this ****** apart
[Vibrant General] }{Alienz}{:
I think I'm gonna buy a gameloft game later today cause of this. Just gotta decide what...i don't game on my phone usually.
[Vibrant General] funeralthirst:
it really is great to see so many people on here come together like this. again.
[Vibrant General] s15274n:
I WAS on a revolt against Gameloft, but lately they've:

1 - this.

2 - allowed installs on new phones (used to have to buy again)

3 - entering the Market.

Profit
[Vibrant General] Longcat14:
Woohoo, time to let a company tear his ass apart. I will buy a gameloft game now.
[Vibrant General] s15274n:
We have tiffles often, but this really is an Incredible community.

Protect it.
[Vibrant General] Br1cK'd:
We have our moments, buts its nice to see us form like Voltron and all move in the same direction for once.

Sent from my ZenDroid, meditating on the XDA App
[Vibrant General] Dan_Brutal:
A post form JAJ on my thread over at EDT:OK, I admit it. I fell for this idiot's scam. I had never rooted any phone B4 I bought my Vib. I saw this guy & asked a few questions. Before long I forked over the $5.00 .

What I received was a link to download Axura and an email requesting my phone number so he could "walk we through it". At this time I was communicating with "David". He was supposed to call me but SURPRISINGLY he didn't. I may be old but I'm not a pushover so I continued to blow up his phone for days.

After 3 or 4 days I received a call from his "friend" Patrick (?), he explained to me that David had a terrible accident and was burned something horrible so he would walk me through it. (HA!)

This idiot didn't know crap about the Vibrant. He had 3 of us "stooges" on a conference call trying to tell us all what to do. I could tell that he was reading the instructions so that's when the old light bulb went off.

I got off the phone and did what I should have done from the very beginning, I did my own research. I ended up learning, for myself, what I needed to do and how to do it. That's when I learned about Master and...I was PI$ED!

David continued to email and call me for awhile, even went so far as to ask me to HELP him with something. Fat chance!

So I consider the $5.00 I gave that monkey to be my price for learning about scammers. Since then I have run into many more just like him. That's why I started giving my money to Devs4Android, and now to EDT. The money should go to the DEVS not the scammers!

Be forewarned...this monkey can talk enough to make you think he knows what he's doing. NOT TRUE. All he knows is how to set up a website (with help) and pirate others work. He is a low boy.

I should be grateful because it forced me to learn for myself, however, I still have a nasty "monkey" taste in my mouth.

PLEASE do not pay for this info. It is readily available online and the real Devs are always more than helpful......for free.

Having said that...If you use a Devs work please remember to donate to that person, they work very hard for us.

Lesson learned.
[Vibrant General] justanothercrowd:
David/AKASKRILLER is a total hack. Please dont donate to him at all he has stolen almost every Vibrant devs work.

His phone number is listed in his youtube videos like this one He actually encourages anyone to give him a call so feel free to let him know how you feel.

(and yeah long time no see folks hope everyone is well! A few new changes in my life took me away my time to keep up the dev work)
[Vibrant General] MINUS Stl:
Holy crap, it IS JAC! :D Glad to see you're still doing ok. Miss your work, but I definitely understand there are more important things.
[Vibrant General] s15274n:
Can we take his # down? Edit, if he posts it on youtube, ha... I guess he deserves it. Holy crap, was driving, just saw WHO posted that, awesome. Thanks JAC.
[Vibrant General] Sopimpro:
I'll take it down if requested, although it's mainly just a few Google/FB searches. :p
[Vibrant General] justanothercrowd:
Hey there Minus! I still have my Vibrant but am not really interested in releasing ROMS based off samsungs work for it. IMO we should just have base ROMS and themes, besides CM7 and MIUI which are the only REAL ROMS IMO (no disrespect) It would really cut down on the millions of ROMS that are basically just themed that are cluttering up the Dev forum.

I do understand a few people actually take the time to use smali/baksmali and some XML edits to make some changes to samsungs framework but the majority of the changes could be accomplished by applying a theme anyways.

If i get some free time from work I may see if Atinm needs some help with CM7 for the Vibrant.
[Vibrant General] justanothercrowd:
I took it down out of respect but i will leave the link to it up. He is the one that posted it on the web for everyone to see in the first place. I dont really feel bad for him since he is a thief after all.
[Vibrant General] rolfd:
Just to keep us legal, would you all please ensure that you do not post any phone numbers please. If the youtube links have it, they are all well and good, but please don't get us into trouble.

Thanks
[Vibrant General] MINUS Stl:
Totally understandable. Unfortunately I'm considering leaving the vibrant soon (issues lately due to leaving cm7...can't seem to fix). Don't want to clutter up this thread though so I'll just leave it at that.

On topic....they seem to keep deleting my posts in regards to their kernel being Froyo. No clue why though. :confused::p
[Vibrant General] justanothercrowd:
I'm already due for an upgrade so once I find a phone that (the G2x seems nice but too many issues ATM) I like i will have more motivation to find the time to get back to deving. Best of luck to you and everyone else here. See you soon!
[Vibrant General] Red_81:
I let the author of root explorer know his software was being offered. Maybe if we get some of the authors involved they can help get Google involved too.

I also sent a message to Shazaam. Their pockets are probably deeper and they most likely have a legal department.
[Vibrant General] Dan_Brutal:
Jac, just wanted to say, best kernel ever.
[Vibrant General] justanothercrowd:
Thanks!

Who knows...maybe i will get a late night itch and compile a 2.2 (or 2.3 if the source is out...i haven't been keeping up) Kernel for you guys with all the goodies. I cant make any promises though with my current schedule.
[Vibrant General] Br1cK'd:
I second that emotion. JACs OC/UV was the best Eclair kernel. Period.
[Vibrant General] justanothercrowd:
Aw now I'm getting all nostalgic. Hopefully work will slow down here coming into the summer months and I can get back to providing the community with goodies.

It may not be for the Vibrant for long as I am in the process of looking for a different phone...it WILL however still be a T-Mobile one.
[Vibrant General] ipetloudog:
Lol. Now comments have to be reviewed before they are posted on his stuff, but months ago.......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rps7NLWX4-U&feature=youtube_gdata_player
[Vibrant General] s15274n:
Another article, woot.

http://www.voiceofandroid.com/android-public-enemy/
[Vibrant General] Joe T:
I just sent paypal a message informing them that he is selling pirated apps and software. His paypal email address is akamomurder@gmail.com. Might be wishful thinking but I hope they freeze his account.
[Vibrant General] Master™:
I did the same.
[Vibrant General] cpittman:
just forwarded a link to this thread as well as the articles we have so far to bgr. doubt they'll run with it but hey it can't hurt i guess.
[Vibrant General] PSP_Hacker:
Look at this asshole's YouTube video claiming he brought to the community things like root and overclocking. Seriously, he really does claim that.

"AKASKRILLEX..."

"The one who brought us Rooting"

"The one who brought us Lagfix"

"The one who brought us Overclocking"

^ all from the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtskmICIBFo
[Vibrant General] bennijai:
I've already reported to paypal of his abuse and posted a warning on his youtube. that's all i can do and hope this guy gets the axe.
[Vibrant General] s15274n:
Is it wrong to say that if they ran this I may have teenager-esque wet dreams... Because I would.
[Vibrant General] cpittman:
wrong? no. concerning? yeah lol
[Vibrant General] xriderx66:
akaskillers goin down. I can tell. lol.

Every dev on here is pissed.

Guys we can't really do anything about the app warez going on...

Warez have been going on since the beginning of time.

WE CAN DO SOMETING ABOUT THE ROMS, but not the apps. Warez are illegal, yet hard to get them taken down.
[Vibrant General] Andy:
That maybe true, but we can prevent one douche from profiteering from it.

Once Gameloft gets their legal dept involved, I'm sure his web host will want to shut him down.

Once Paypal realizes they get to keep someone else's money & still do the right thing they will freeze his account.
[Vibrant General] Flozzo:
Well this guy sure as hell looks like an (ex) convict ;). Pathetic that at age 31,you have to steal other people's dev work to make money out of it...

Awh well, hope he gets blocked by all possible things, and in the best, and very unlikely case, gets sued :)

CM7 FTW @ SGS - Tapatalk
[Vibrant General] Oniyuri:
Thanks for getting us together on this issue s15274n.

I tipped off Android Central and before I'm done, I'm gonna try to get Android Police and Phandroid's attn as well.

[EDIT]

Android Police - Done!

Phandroid - Done!

[/EDIT]
[Vibrant General] cpittman:
but he has such a heartfelt apology in the dev section. such a douche!

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1084383
[Vibrant General] Andy:
Good job guys/gals, good job.
[Vibrant General] ld006:
Wow, anyone who says "droid" phones instead of "android" phones is a complete noob and could not code one line to save his/her life
[Vibrant General] zentronic:
aka

hey im an ex con!! hes one of those guys that trys to look like one lol
[Vibrant General] Red_81:
Where on PayPal did you report it? I would like to do the same.
[Vibrant General] Master™:
https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/helpscr?cmd=_contact-general
[Vibrant General] XPLANE9:
Thread closed in the development section. No more flaming for now I guess.
[Vibrant General] Andy:
I'm not normally from these parts, my usual haunt is the Desire HD section. I must remember to pop back from time to time. I have to admit it, but I've enjoyed tonight. Doing the right thing #winner
[Vibrant General] xriderx66:
Edited as requested.........................
[Vibrant General] jrafael:
I did contact the hosting provider about the copyright violations.

here is the link to open a ticket ( select Abuse / DMCA / Spam)

https://support.amerinoc.com/index.php?_m=tickets&_a=submit
[Vibrant General] lldtbll#teamwhiskey:
This guys world just came crashing down. Hope hes been saving That 6 grand a month he's been making cause he's about to lose alot more than that
[Vibrant General] iynfynity:
If he makes the GPS on gingerbread work I'll leave him alone.

I kiddding I kidding. :D
[Vibrant General] Pierce533:
I called Obama, the CIA and Navy Seals are in route to this guy's mother's basement... no need to thank me. :D

On a serious note, thanks for warning the community about this thief.
[Vibrant General] scarmon25:
Is it just me or does this guys username make you think of asskisser

Tap-a-Talked.
[Vibrant General] s15274n:
For XDA's sake, lets keep it clean...

^ but yes.
[Vibrant General] scarmon25:
I'm sorry. I didn't mean to offend anyone if I did well of course excluding the formentioned. Didn't figure it would be a big deal seeing as far worse had already been stated. Again my apologies.

Tap-a-Talked.
[Vibrant General] s15274n:
^ no worries man... after his apology thread got closed, that is NOT what I want to happen here. We need to be respectful, not cuss, etc.

Basically, not stoop to his level. That was not directed at you... just a general, "be cool %itches"

OP was updated to look better...
[Vibrant General] krylon360:
s1, you have our support.
[Vibrant General] s15274n:
I'm out of "thanks"... so thanks!!
[Vibrant General] bush2088:
is there any way that the rom and app devs could sue this douchebag?
[Vibrant General] justanothercrowd:
It appears he has been reported to just about every authority that we can. He is basically screwed at this point. He can take down his whole site and it won't make a difference.

His host will have a log of all the pirated apps he hosted for download etc..

PayPal doesn't play very nicely either.

He claims to be ignorant of the rules but that does not make him innocent.

Its like saying you didn't know it was illegal to drive 120mph down the freeway after getting pulled over by an officer. Too little...too late.
[Vibrant General] Br1cK'd:
HA!

Sent from my ZenDroid, meditating on the XDA App
[Vibrant General] s15274n:
Holy jeepers... just realized this thread had almost 5600 views already, in less than a day.

Its like I released a function GB rom, like akaskriller did!

Seriously impressed by our community.. realize i'm saying it a lot, but I really appreciate you guys... hence the thread in the first place!