[mindfrost82]

I'll be closing this thread down, but I'm going to reply as part of the staff and offer an explanation.

Someone at Microsoft called Mike regarding this rom and the SYS CE OS 5.2.21014 Build 21014.1.6.0. They said it was confidential source code and asked that it be removed. While I don't believe they sent him a "cease and desist" notice, we still complied because we don't want to turn Microsoft against us.

They could have gone further by showing proof that it is confidential source code and gotten a warrant for the poster's information and force us to take it down and if we didn't comply they could contact the host and have the whole site shut down.

So before it got to that point we decided to comply to an extent. They did ask for Juicy's contact information, but we believe in user privacy, so we won't provide that without the proper legal notice. As said before, he's not the one that leaked it either, so I don't think they could go after him for anything.

As Juggalo mentioned, this site is designed for us to share resources and information legally. While custom ROMs may be considered borderline on legality, we have not stopped that because we haven't been asked to by the authorities, and hopefully that will never happen. Custom ROMs are a benefit of this site and sites like our's. If they force one site to stop custom ROMs they must try to stop all of them, which would be a huge battle.

If a user has politely requested users to stop PMing them for this ROM, then please follow their wishes and stop.