Software professional Thejesh GN has decided to legally fight the cease and desist notice served to him by the Israeli company Flash Networks last week. Flash Networks had earlier alleged that Thejesh had infringed on its copyright by publishing code on GitHub, which the company claims is proprietary to them but was publicly available until last week.This was after Thejesh had noticed that India's largest telecom operator Airtel was injecting Javascript code into the user's browsing session without their consent, which was slowing down his website on Airtel's 3G network. This code was also allegedly inserting toolbars into the browsing session through iframes. He later published this Javascript code along with screenshots to support his claim on GitHub.Flash Networks which apparently had created this code, sent a cease & desist notice to Thejesh for publishing this code and sent a DMCA notice to GitHub, following which the code and screenshots were taken down.While Airtel categorically denied any involvement with this notice, it accepted that Flash Networks was one of its network vendor partners that was piloting this solution through a third party to "help customers understand their data consumption in terms of volume of data used". It also noted that this "was a standard solution deployed by telcos globally to help their customers keep track of their data usage in terms of mega bytes used."Interestingly, Flash Networks had alleged in the notice that Thejesh’s actions was also a criminal offence under the IT ACT, 2000 and the Indian Penal Code and this has "caused great damage to their client's business, name and reputation" and their client "will be entitled to claim and recover substantial amount by way of compensation or damages".Alternative Law Forum said in the notice that Thejesh was merely following the accepted industry protocol by publishing the requisite code along with a modified version of the same on GitHub, so to spread more awareness among the general public.It also noted that publishing their findings is "a commonly accepted practice whenever one encounters any inserted scripts, viruses or spyware so that other researchers can review the findings by looking into it". Hence, the legal firm notes that Thejesh is not indulging in copyright infringement and instead exercised his right in accordance with the copyright law in India.Furthermore, it has now demanded that Flash Networks should offer an unconditional apology for violating the privacy of Thejesh GN and for attempting to insert a malicious piece of code into Thejesh's website that has "affected the functionality of the same as well as lowering his reputation".: Flash Networks has sent the following response to ETtech via email:"We have received Thejesh’s response to our Cease and Desist Notice, we categorically deny his claims as well as the misinformation and malicious rumors spread by him about our SW. Making our proprietary code public is an infringement of our intellectual property, our attorney’s will send the appropriate response to Thejesh’s attorney."