MarkMonitor / Microsoft reports copyright violation for several Linux distros and causes deleting them from Polish hosting site.

This is a message received by a person who was sharing some .iso images of Linux distributions on Polish hosting site called chomikuj.pl:

Hello, We've received reliable information that you account contains the following files:

• pclinuxos64-kde-2013.07.iso (PCLinuxOS),
• pclinuxos64-kde-fullmonty-2013.08.iso (PCLinuxOS),
• pclinuxos64-kde-minime-2013.07.iso (PCLinuxOS),
• pclinuxos64-lxde-2013.07.iso (PCLinuxOS),
• pclinuxos64-mate-2013.0715.iso (PCLinuxOS),
• pclinuxos-kde-2013.07.iso (PCLinuxOS),
• pclinuxos-kde-minime-2013.07.iso (PCLinuxOS),
• pclinuxos-lxde-2013.07.iso (PCLinuxOS),
• pclinuxos-mate-2013.0715.iso (PCLinuxOS),
• openSUSE-12.3-DVD-i586.iso (openSUSE),
• openSUSE-12.3-DVD-x86_64.iso (openSUSE),
• Linux XP 2006 SR-2.iso (Linux XP 2006 SR-2),
• GeeXboX 3.0 - geexbox-3.0-i386.iso (Geexbox),
• GeeXboX 3.0 - geexbox-3.0-x86_64.iso (Geexbox),
• linuxmint-14-cinnamon-dvd-32bit.iso (Mint 14 Nadia),
• linuxmint-14-cinnamon-dvd-64bit.iso (Mint 14 Nadia),
• linuxmint-14-mate-dvd-32bit.iso (Mint 14 Nadia),
• Fedora-Live-KDE-x86_64-19-1.iso (Fedora 19)

for which the copyrights has been violated, according to a statement by MarkMonitor/Microsoft, which is an entity that directed to the Portal Chomikuj.pl request to prevent their dissemination. Therefore, the files have been deleted.

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