You're a little late on that one. That code in question was only part of Echelon for several hours, the day after the first public release of Echelon 1.0. The dev quickly realized that it was a terrible idea, and promptly took it down. It only affected pirates, with no chance of harming legitimate customers or people just trying out the demo. Those guys got what they deserved, end of story. The code is long gone, so no use talking about it now.