Проект удалили несколько минут назад:

Hi Dmitry,

We have now received the additional information from the complaining party. The technical description they have provided to us causes us concern about the purpose of your tool. Microsoft cannot be in the position of hosting tools that may primarily be used for unlawful purposes, nor can we continue to be an arbiter between you and the complaining party. To help you understand our determination, we’ve extracted the relevant statements from their follow up communication to us:

We legally host lots of books and legally provide our site visitors with read-only version of many commercial books. Kind of a public library.

To prevent books from simply being downloaded or copy-pasted by users we use some javascript tricks, iframes and some other HTML and DHTML features. Lightweight DRM - you can read the book on the screen, but can not save or copy the text.

We have contracts with copyright-owners and we guarantee them some reasonable level of protection.

Here you can see an example of such a read-only book:

http://www.fictionbook.ru/read_book/lukyanenko_ser...1_labirint_otrajeniyi___1.html

This is protected text of a russian bestseller. We already have about 4000 protected texts and every day we place more. Without some serious hacking you are unable to get the text, as you can see.

eBookDownloader is the simple to use utility to download such a protected books to the hard drive. Author has reverse-engineered our content-protection system. Utility fetches all required data by HTTP, then compile it and saves as normal html/xml, directly readable by most popular Russian eBook readers.

Run eBookDownloader and use

http://www.fictionbook.ru/read_book/lukyanenko_ser..._1_labirint_otrajeniyi__0.html

About a 30 seconds, and you have a zip-file with the book (utf8 html).

We do not mean this utility uses some hacking requests or server exploits. eBookDownloader uses standard HTTP requests to get copy-protected data, and then removes protection. Just like DVD-ripping software or lit-hacking utility.

That is the only purpose of the eBookDownloader and that's why we ask you to remove it from codeplex.com.

Because Microsoft is one of many companies to create encryption and/or copy protection technology, we understand this very well and, as an intellectual property owner, we are concerned about tools that strip protected works of any such copy protection. We understand that you disagree, however, the complaining has substantiated their position in enough detail to cause us to remove the tool from Codeplex.

Thanks

больше всего умиляет следующая фраза:

We have contracts with copyright-owners and we guarantee them some reasonable level of protection.

вот же уроды. вместо того чтобы сделать нормальную защиту они убирают утилиту... очень спортивно.

Касательно будующего eBookDownloader. Не знаю, буду ли я заниматься его возрождением. Одно могу сказать точно - в сети у пользователей есть значительное количество копий программы. Счётчик показывал более 500 скачанных копий самой свежей версии. И более 20 скачанных копий исходного кода (лицензированного по GPL2). Скажу более - в случае нужды даже отсутствие исходного кода не сильно осложнит дальнейшее развитие программы третьими лицами. Ибо исходники замечательно получаются в результате декомпиляции исходника программой Reflector.NET и им подобными декомпиляторами...