Jason California
03-30-2008, 09:48 PM
http://www.zeropaid.com/news/9362/Sony+BMG+Sued+for+Software+Piracy+-+Assets+Seized
Sony BMG Sued for Software Piracy - Assets Seized
(http://www.zeropaid.com/) posted by DrewWilson (http://www.zeropaid.com/news/user.php?login=DrewWilson) in software (http://www.zeropaid.com/news/index.php?category=software) // 2 days 6 hours 55 minutes ago
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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 (http://www.01net.com/editorial/374727/la-major-sony-bmg-poursuivie-pour-contrefacon-de-logiciel/) (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 (http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.01net.com%2Feditorial %2F374727%2Fla-major-sony-bmg-poursuivie-pour-contrefacon-de-logiciel%2F&langpair=fr%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF-8) (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.
Questioned about the fact that this is perhaps the single act of an employee, the CEO of PointDev retorts, "I think piracy is linked to the policy of a company. If the employee has the necessary funding to buy the software they need, it will. If this is not the case, he will find alternative ways, as the work must be done in one way or another."
Essentially, the PointDev CEO says that the BSA has said that Sony has a software piracy rate of 47%. The CEO also says that piracy may even be a part of Sony's business policy - if you can't afford it, pirate it. It is said that Sony was in the process of merging with BMG when the pirating incident occurred.
An additional report (http://www.laprovence.com/articles/2008/03/19/347901-UNKNOWN-Une-societe-vauclusienne-attaque-le-geant-Sony.php) (French) (Google Translation (http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.laprovence.com%2Farti cles%2F2008%2F03%2F19%2F347901-UNKNOWN-Une-societe-vauclusienne-attaque-le-geant-Sony.php&langpair=fr%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF-8)) says that the CEO of PointDev wants to make this piracy case an example.
Sony told La Province to not report on the ongoing investigation. Clearly, Sony is not happy that this case was made public at all.
Sony BMG Sued for Software Piracy - Assets Seized
(http://www.zeropaid.com/) posted by DrewWilson (http://www.zeropaid.com/news/user.php?login=DrewWilson) in software (http://www.zeropaid.com/news/index.php?category=software) // 2 days 6 hours 55 minutes ago
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vote (javascript:menealo(0, 9362, 0, 'b1484d76f206e1f5e18b2592d9499ac2'))
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 (http://www.01net.com/editorial/374727/la-major-sony-bmg-poursuivie-pour-contrefacon-de-logiciel/) (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 (http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.01net.com%2Feditorial %2F374727%2Fla-major-sony-bmg-poursuivie-pour-contrefacon-de-logiciel%2F&langpair=fr%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF-8) (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.
Questioned about the fact that this is perhaps the single act of an employee, the CEO of PointDev retorts, "I think piracy is linked to the policy of a company. If the employee has the necessary funding to buy the software they need, it will. If this is not the case, he will find alternative ways, as the work must be done in one way or another."
Essentially, the PointDev CEO says that the BSA has said that Sony has a software piracy rate of 47%. The CEO also says that piracy may even be a part of Sony's business policy - if you can't afford it, pirate it. It is said that Sony was in the process of merging with BMG when the pirating incident occurred.
An additional report (http://www.laprovence.com/articles/2008/03/19/347901-UNKNOWN-Une-societe-vauclusienne-attaque-le-geant-Sony.php) (French) (Google Translation (http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.laprovence.com%2Farti cles%2F2008%2F03%2F19%2F347901-UNKNOWN-Une-societe-vauclusienne-attaque-le-geant-Sony.php&langpair=fr%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF-8)) says that the CEO of PointDev wants to make this piracy case an example.
Sony told La Province to not report on the ongoing investigation. Clearly, Sony is not happy that this case was made public at all.