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Sigma Designs Accused of Copyright Infringement

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the vengeance-is-mine-saith-the-horde dept.

Cygnus v1 writes "The XVID team has ceased development of the XVID video codec for the time being because they say that Sigma Designs' REALmagic MPEG-4 Video Codec software includes their code and has claimed it as Sigma Designs' own work. The current XVID homepage includes some binary-level comparisons." Update: 08/23 03:14 GMT by T : Apparently the folks at Sigma have seen that no good is likely to come from this; an anonymous reader submits a link to this release on Yahoo! which says "complete source code will be available for download starting August 23, free of charge, through Sigma's website."

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  1. Re:No, use corporation speak instead by marcop · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why not just call them a bunch of pirates, as Disney, RIAA, MPAA, etc. call individuals who allegedly are involved in copyright infringement. Then the developers can claim "X" dollars lost and say how their children, pets, etc. are starving because of piracy.

  2. Re:Anybody else notice... by NanoGator · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Anybody else notice...that XVID is DIVX backwards?"

    Nice DMCA violation there. Heh.

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    "Derp de derp."
  3. Sigma Design Resumes by Clipper · · Score: 5, Funny
    Here's some snippets from resumes recently submitted to Sigma Design's HR department

    Qualifications:
    • Advanced knowledge of the C-c and C-v hotkeys in Windows
    Work Experience
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    /<en
  4. Re:Tempting by MrHanky · · Score: 4, Funny

    From WordNet (r) 1.7.1 (July 2002) [wn]:

    hipocracy
    n : rule by hippopotamus, a massive thick-skinned herbivorous animal living in or around rivers of tropical Africa.

    Sorry, couldn't resist. Yes, as you said, tempting. :-)

  5. Re:No, use corporation speak instead by Amazing+Quantum+Man · · Score: 3, Funny

    Because only Big Patriotic Capitalist American Corporations(tm) are allowed to do that. Anyone else is an Evil Terrorist Commie Content Pirate(tm)!

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    Fascism starts when the efficiency of the government becomes more important than the rights of the people.
  6. Finally the missing step!!!! by JUSTONEMORELATTE · · Score: 5, Funny

    1: Create cool open source stuff
    2: Get ripped off by a for-profit outfit
    3: Prove it, and sue
    4: Profit!

  7. Re:YES! I read it carefully - it's a smoking gun!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny
    I've been coding in asm since 1967 on two dozen different architectures.

    YES! So YOU'RE the one working on Duke Nukem Forever! When will you be done!?