Sony BMG Sued For Using Pirated Software

An anonymous reader sends us to ZeroPaid, which seems to be the only site in English to have picked up a story out of France involving Sony and piracy. Except this time the shoe is on the other foot. The small software company PointDev learned that Sony BMG was using a pirated license for one of its system administration tools. PointDev got bailiffs to raid a Sony property and they found pirated software on four servers. The source article (link is to a Google translation of French original) quotes PointDev's spokesman claiming that the BSA believes 47% of software used in corporations to be illegal — whether he is referring to Sony in particular is not clear in the translation.

Comments

Re:Let me be the first to say

[timmarhy]

got any facts to back up that claim, or are you just another pie in the sky left wing hippie running their mouth off between bongs?

Re:What will they charge per pirated copy?

[Bogtha]

Yes, those arguments are similar to what Sony BMG used against citizens via their RIAA subsidiary.

No, they really aren't.

Don't own a computer? Must've been hiding evidence!

Has the RIAA actually used this argument? See I can't tell because you are acting like a fucking idiot, so I can't separate your actual claims from your stupid fantasies.

Have files in inadvertently shared folders? Obviously must have distributed them at least 100 times.

This just demonstrates how stupid your analogy is. Placing files on an internal corporate server is completely different to putting it on Kazaa or whatever. In the one case you are sharing with everybody and there's no reasonable way of determining how many times something is shared, and in the other case, you are "sharing" only with a known set of computers, which have been the subject of a raid, so you know exactly how many infringing copies there are and don't need to guess at all.