Role Reversal: Sony/BMG Under Investigation for Software Piracy

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Sony/BMG Under Investigation for Software Piracy

Wired.com
By Eliot Van Buskirk
March 31, 2008 | 10:38:57 AM

A small software company has accused major label Sony/BMG of software piracy, in a reversal of the normal orientation of piracy cases between major labels and the rest of the world. http://www.pointdev.com/">PointDev, which makes Windows administration software, claims that a raid on Sony/BMG servers revealed that as much as 47 percent of the software used by the company can be considered to have been pirated under French law, according to Zeropaid's Google translation of the initial report:

We are not interested in an amicable settlement. It is not just a question of money but more importantly in principle. 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 percent of programs used in the company would be in France...

The Business Software Alliance raid that uncovered the programs on Sony/BMG's servers was apparently triggered by Sony IT worker's request for assistance with a program called Ideal Migration. When the PointDev tech support person tried to help, he or she seems to have discovered that the key provided by Sony/BMG was pirated.

Sony/BMG apparently asked La Provence not to pick up on the story, which, of course, it did. The case will surely provide no small amount of glee to file sharing activists and RIAA boycotters as it unfolds.

http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/03/sonybmg-under-i.html">LINK

- I hope that they sue them down to their drawers. I wonder how much pirated software their lawyers have on their computers.....
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1. All I have to say is

:nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

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2. K&R

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3. Good!

They ought to know all about stealing intellectual property ....... and of course they do. They just chooses to ignore it in themselves.

In our tiny four-person company, every copy of every program we use is legal. And some of it ain't at all cheap.

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5. I got 6 computers here

2 have licensed versions of XP, one has a licensed version of WordPerfect, everything else is open source.

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4. Pot, meet kettle

:)

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6. i.ro.ny: (n) See: Sony/BMG Under Investigation for Software Piracy

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7. I love it.

Let's see their argument in court. :rofl: