The company is being sued by PointDev, a French software company that makes Windows administration tools, after an IT worker at Sony BMG called and supplied the company with a pirated license number for one of its products.
A subsequent raid of Sony BMG offices in France turned up pirated PointDev software on four servers, and quite a bit more suspect software. The Business Software Alliance thinks that up to 47% of the software installed on French business computers could be pirated. For its part, PointDev is claiming $475,000 in damages. Sony BMG declined to comment.
The CEO of tiny PointDev (six employees), Agustoni Paul-Henry, doesn't think it was an oversight, or the work of one person. "I think piracy is linked to the policy of a company," he said.
what justification could Sony have for pirating software and what is the applicable copyright law in France?
ReplyDeleteWow! There's a "man bites dog" story if I ever saw one. Sony BMG is unhappy about people pirating their music, yet they are busy pirating software.
ReplyDeleteToo funny.
Throw the book at the hypocrites!