[HN Gopher] Lightmoon is not Kdenlive. Lightmoon is malware
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       Lightmoon is not Kdenlive. Lightmoon is malware
        
       Author : toastedwedge
       Score  : 60 points
       Date   : 2022-06-01 17:51 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (kdenlive.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (kdenlive.org)
        
       | rascul wrote:
       | The Lightmoon website appears to be mostly copied from the
       | Kdenlive web site. And the downloads page has Kdenlive in the
       | <title>...
       | 
       | Official Kdenlive site (good): https://kdenlive.org
       | 
       | Lightmoon site (bad, don't download from here):
       | https://lightmoon.studio
        
       | riidom wrote:
       | Reported to DDG, fwiw
       | 
       | But have to say, with just "lightmoon" it was not on first page.
       | Had to add "studio" as other comment mentioned to find it. So
       | maybe the downranked it already. Take that google! :D
        
       | sho_hn wrote:
       | Eike from the KDE community here - thanks to whoever submitted
       | this!
       | 
       | Kdenlive is of our most popular applications, having made great
       | strides in maturity and depth of functionality in the last couple
       | of years.
       | 
       | Unfortunately the Kdenlive team has been having persistent issues
       | with fraud of this type for over a year now. Several instances of
       | people buying SEO keywords including the app's name and then
       | pushing more or less subtly relabeled versions, outright malware,
       | and even identity theft in the form of impersonating members of
       | the dev team on the fake sites. It's very difficult to combat
       | effectively and burns a lot of energy.
        
         | technocratius wrote:
         | That sounds exhausting. Good luck to you all, Kdenlive is
         | amazing so keep it up!
        
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