Unchi & Shadiness

[devthedev]

This is the official scam accusation thread against Unchi and his shady business practices.

User's profile: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=357075

Last year I purchased http://passphrase.io in it's entirety, including the source from unchi.
Here is my announcement thread, https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1113393.0

It was a complete sale and transfer of the domain and everything related to Passphrase.io.
Yesterday Unchi attempted to retroactively convert the sale into a lease.
His claim is that he sold me a license to use and modify the software. Not ownership of the code which is absolute insanity.

The Passphrase.io domain didn't renew automatically on my registrar so he quickly snagged it and rehosted the code he sold me a year ago and is attempting to resell it. He may own the domain, but he has no ownership over the code and no rights to profit off of something that no longer belongs to him.

His new listing:

I am looking for interested buyers of my website, passphrase.io

Asking price is 0.5 BTC.

Includes the domain name, source code (full copyright ownership), and assistance with setup.

Please email me at the address shown on the website if you are interested.

Here is a snippet from our latest communication on July 7th, 2015



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[mexxer-2]

Well, additional tags may not be required as you're on DT anyway.

[suchmoon]

To me unchi's side of the story sounds more reasonable. It's not like he/she was lurking to snap the domain up immediately after expiration. Three months is a long time.

I don't know about the software licensing part, hard to say without seeing the original contract. If I was buying a domain with software I would probably expect the copyright to be included but I would also expect that to be spelled out in the contract.