Sony done for piracy
Published by elliott bledsoe on Monday, 31 March 2008 at 2:40 PMIt would seem the latest scurvy knaves to join the crew of the digital pirates is none other than music muscle Sony BMG. Now of course, I can't speak French so I'm relying on what ZeroPoint says*, but the story goes that Sony had been using a version of small French software company PointDev's program Ideal Migration which had been accessed using a key which had not been purchased.
It all came about when a member of Sony's IT department requested technical support from PointDev. In January the software company were successful in getting a court order to allow a bailiff to raid one of Sony BMG's buildings which revealed the use of the software in question on four servers.
According to the story on ZeroPaid Sony tried to quash the story which may explain why it is only now that it is getting attention.
As the CEO of PointDev says (via bad Google translation), "We are not interested in an amicable settlement. It is not just a question of money but more importantly in principle." And I agree. Why is it ok for the big end of town to blunder around bashing heads with the pointy end of copyright law when they are as guilty of piracy as anyone else? Major content and software companies have long used copyright as a beating stick, and I say good on PointDev for grabbing the stick and belting back!
*If you can read French, please let me know if this is the case. 01net has a story on the issue here.
You'll pass this on, won't you:
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