{"id":15255,"date":"2016-07-19T10:51:58","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T14:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=15255"},"modified":"2016-07-19T10:51:58","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T14:51:58","slug":"mackeeper-threatens-youtube-video-maker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/19\/mackeeper-threatens-youtube-video-maker\/","title":{"rendered":"MacKeeper Threatens YouTube Video Maker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/16\/07\/18\/mackeeper-threatens-14-year-old-youtube-video-maker-with-harassment-suit\">Mike Wuerthele<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/16\/07\/18\/mackeeper-threatens-14-year-old-youtube-video-maker-with-harassment-suit\"><p>Infamous software developer MacKeeper has demanded that four videos critical of its maligned tune-up utility suite be removed from the internet, threatening the teenager behind the videos with $60,000 in court costs and legal fees.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>In August 2015, ZeoBIT, creators of MacKeeper, agreed to a settlement in 2015 to put $2 million in a <a href=\"http:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/15\/08\/10\/mackeeper-to-pay-out-2m-in-proposed-class-action-settlement\">compensation fund<\/a> to cover attorney fees, refunds and administrative costs to U.S class action claimants who purchased MacKeeper prior to July 8, 2015.<\/p><p>The complaint alleged that &ldquo;ZeoBIT intentionally designed MacKeeper to invariably and ominously report that a user&rsquo;s Mac needs repair, and is at-risk due to harmful (but fabricated) errors, privacy threats, and other computer problems, regardless of the computer&rsquo;s actual condition.&rdquo; Court documents state that 513,330 people are registered owners of the software in the U.S.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Previously: <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/21\/mackeeper\/\">MacKeeper<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Wuerthele: Infamous software developer MacKeeper has demanded that four videos critical of its maligned tune-up utility suite be removed from the internet, threatening the teenager behind the videos with $60,000 in court costs and legal fees.[&#8230;]In August 2015, ZeoBIT, creators of MacKeeper, agreed to a settlement in 2015 to put $2 million in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[41,209,30,1199,1123,555],"class_list":["post-15255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-lawsuit","tag-legal","tag-mac","tag-mac-os-x-10-11","tag-mackeeper","tag-youtube"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15256,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15255\/revisions\/15256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}