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Sony BMG Sued for Software Piracy
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augie
Algis Koscus
PostPosted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 10:48 pm Reply with quote

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Sony BMG, a company known for enforcing its intellectual property rights, is now facing the other end of an Intellectual Property related lawsuit. A report (French) says the complaining company, PointDev, seized some of Sonys assets which revealed that the pirated software appeared on four of their servers.


PointDev, a small software company, mandated a bailiff to raid one of Sony BMGs owned building in January this year. The raid revealed that four of the Sony BMGs owned servers contained the pirated software.

It appears as though the company discovered this when an IT department employee requested assistance for the use of a product called Ideal Migration. When technical support looked into the case, they discovered that the key used to activate the software was a pirated version.

The report continues (Google Translation):

"We are not interested in an amicable settlement. It is not just a question of money but more importantly in principle, storm Agustoni Paul-Henry, CEO of PointDev. The rate of software piracy in the company is very high. "According to the Business Software Alliance, a association of the major publishers in the market, 47% of programs used in the company would be unlawfully in France ...

"We are forced to watch every week if key software pirates are not on the Internet. We are a small company of six employees. Instead of trying to protect us, we could spend this time to develop ourselves," complains Paul-Henry Agustoni.

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augie
Algis Koscus
PostPosted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 10:49 pm Reply with quote

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Kinda ironic ain't it?
 
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NT50
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 7:35 am Reply with quote

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LOL, yea it is.................
 
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ready2rumbelX
PostPosted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 5:01 pm Reply with quote

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The business world is ironic. It's not surprising to find companies that are eager to join the bandwagon and go against piracy, except for those pirated copies on their machines. smile

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sceaser
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I like the fact that they got caught , Ive read some of there emails to Da Bay ?? hehe and there are some great things about charma here smile
 
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Allan®
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augie wrote:
Kinda ironic ain't it?

"It's like ra-a-in, on your wedding day.
A death row pardon, two minutes to late... "

I used to like Sony before ... when they had walkman etc ... (late 90's) but then they got greedier then most other companies... DRM, Exploding Batteries, stupid Lawsuits ... now I dispise them, and refuse to own anything Sonly Branded
 
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