http://neosmart.net/...ted-reinstated/
Three months ago, we were contacted by the legal department at Microsoft Corporation asking us to discontinue hosting these files. Until this point, we were not aware that Microsoft was displeased with our hosting of the CDs and in fact enjoyed a rather healthy relationship with the Microsoft support forums where victims of PC crashes would be directed to our site to download a copy of the repair CDs.
The bad news is that there will now be a nine dollar download charge for each CD. There was no way for us to avoid charging this, as we now pay a licensing fee to Microsoft in exchange for making these CDs available, and also pay per download to outsource the high-speed web hosting for these large CD images (150 to 200 MiB, each) to an outside service.
A rare case where my crystal ball worked allright.
http://www.911cd.net...showtopic=20993
http://www.911cd.net...opic=20993&st=5
Heck, three years earlier than "internet Investigators" .
http://reboot.pro/2960/
BTW the original autopatcher takedown notice can be read through the Wayback Machine:
http://web.archive.o...takedown-notice
Wonko