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This reminds me a lot of the no-ip.com case. Did anyone ever find out how that was resolved? Apparently Microsoft gave back the domains[1], but did they face any payments for damages or censure?

[1] http://www.noip.com/blog/2014/07/10/microsoft-takedown-detai...

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Out of court settlement. Microsoft and No-ip both issued press releases/updates to their original blog posts about it.

No details about the settlement were released but No-IP certainly got paid.

Details are obviously not public, but noip did not receive any money as a result. Regardless of popular opinion on the matter, Microsoft managed to get a lot of harmful malware shut down.

and the ends justify the means right?

Who care how many innocent people are victimized in the process, as long as Microsoft can get some good PR it is all A-OK

I bet Microsoft could shutdown all kinds of malware if we all just allow them to continually monitor all of our computers at all times....

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