On Fri, 11 Jul 2014, Edward Morris wrote:

> I've posted a letter this afternoon to Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith
> asking for elaboration of Microsoft's legal theory that network service
> providers are obligated to place the names and contact details of all users
> in a public database. I'll post his response when I receive it.

hi Edward,

thanks for the followup.   i'm also suprised that the "public notice"
web page of MicroSoft:  "http://noticeoflawsuit.com" has not been
updated since it was first posted, so it doesn't reflect any of the
changes in the court order to Vitalwerks.

the EFF did pick up on what i found very troubling, the statement in
the lawsuit that legitimate users of no-ip services, if any, would
not be affected.   they repeat a couple of times this "if any" to
suggest to the court that it was unlikely that there were any legitimate
users of the DNS services.

how can MicroSoft be let off cleanly by a secret settlement with
Vitalwerks when the actions they initiated, and the court directed,
affected more than 5 million users -- noted in the EFF discussion that 
were clobbered by MicroSoft's incompetence after assuring the court 
that the the solution they were asking for would not affect legitimate
uses of the no-ip DNS services?

-ron