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.

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47% is global, not for Sony

[sodul]

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.

I'm french so I can provide a more accurate translation:

Selon la Business Software Alliance, une association regroupant les principaux éditeurs du marché, 47 % des programmes utilisés en entreprise le seraient de manière illégale en France...

According to the Business Software Alliance, an organization representing the major software companies, 47% of the software used by businesses in France is used illegally.

So 47% is the global number for french businesses, not limited to Sony.

Re:Let me be the first to say

[Immortal Poet]

There is underway currently the greatest transfer of wealth in human history, and it's going from workers to the very rich. Sort of socialism in reverse, and the result will be that the world will become a very unpleasant place in which to live for most of us.

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? I believe that PopeRatzo is talking about the fact that the richest 10% of the world population controls 85% of the world's wealth, and the poorest 50% of the world population controls only 1% of the world wealth. Over the past decade, these numbers have become more and more disparate, with the wealthiest controlling more and more wealth, and the poorest controlling less and less. You will be able to find out more by reading a helpful power point presentation of a study conducted by the World Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations University. Do these facts sufficiently back up that claim?