Re: [tor-talk] So what about Pirate Browser?

[adrelanos <adrelanos@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Peter Tonoli:
> On 8/13/13, 1:41 AM, Î â wrote:
>>
>> On 2013-08-10, at 11:42 AM, Roger Dingledine <arma@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Randolph, please stop calling your thing "torbrowser". I hope no users
>>> are stupid enough to think they should get their Tor Browser Bundle from
>>> you, but your choice of name makes it clear that you're not trying to
>>> be a member of the Tor community.
>>
>> Further to that point, that project's site at
>> http://torbrowser.sourceforge.net makes an effort to further confuse
>> users by mimicking the official Tor Project website, albeit poorly. I
>> think this kind of deception raises some pretty major red flags
>> regarding the goals of the 'torbrowser'.
> 
> Perhaps, if there's so much concern about this SourceForge project, list
> users could create one star reviews on the project page at
> <http://sourceforge.net/projects/torbrowser/>, and put 'fake' or similar
> in the comments??
> 
> According to the project page, there were over 300 downloads this week,
> and it's been rated an everage of 4.4 out of 5.
> 
> My 2 cents.

It would be more effective if The Tor Project contacted sourceforge and
complained.

I suggest to open a public ticket, for transparency, so everyone can see
what sourceforge replies. From experience, sourceforge is replies quite
fast and act reasonable.

As a lazy solution, just use the contact form.

Link to their public ticket system or contact form are here:
http://sourceforge.net/support

This has been suggested by me some time ago already. I don't understand
why The Tor Project complaints about
sourceforge.net/projects/torbrowser, but doesn't contact sourceforge.

Do you think its going to be complicated?

-> No, just sign up and open a ticket (trac).

Do you think it takes a lot time?

-> Not more than any other signup / ticket opening and if time is that
crucial, use the contact form which doesn't even need registration.

Do you think sourceforge will refuse?

-> Don't expect the worst. Its theoretically possible, but I think they
are acting in good faith. More likely that they ask the project to
rename and if they don't do it and you remind them a week later, they
deactivate the project until they change.

From all the hard Tor problems, this won't be one of this, no lawyer
required. Actually an easy task.
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