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Perth Game Company CEO Takes IP By Night

Posted by timothy on from the not-a-dwelling-place-so-not-burglary dept.

snicho99 writes "A US owned gaming company has fled Australia, leaving unpaid employees and a massive tax bill. Apparently many staff have been working unpaid for months to allow their game to ship and hopefully the company to recover. Interzone's Perth (Western Australia) office was created with the assistance of a state government grant. Last week Interzone's (American) CEO entered the building at night and removed all the servers and IP so that Interzone could continue production at a new company they have opened in Ireland. The staff caught him on camera. More background here."

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  1. Other countries are interesting by PizzaAnalogyGuy · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Remember that it's not so bad to leave a country to do business elsewhere. When I worked in Naples, I would not get almost any pay. Yes, I was a kid and I was supposed to work for my father, but I wanted something off from it. If it doesn't work like you want to, you go somewhere where it does.

    Not that it wouldn't be good - Me myself and customers loved great good crust with beautiful cheese, bacon, tomato, ham and barbeque sauce on top of it. And with Mountain Dew. But our counsin had his pizzeria just next to ours - he stole customers from us and we had to fight to fight.

    This lead me to escape to America. In the beginning of 90's I started my own pizza place in the Manhattan. It was great time - customers rolled in, were happy and just loved what I baked. But the competition came there too - there was thousands of cheapo kebab/pizza places that offered substandard pizzas to customers with lower prices.

    I tried to fight - I tried to it with quality. I tried having free beers and hookers. But people just went to the cheap pizza places. How am I supposed to work with that?

    Actually I'm asking slashdot. How I am supposed to fight the cheapo crappy pizza places when I offer quality pizzas? Does it matter to keep quality? What you love about pizza?

    1. Re:Other countries are interesting by Zontar+The+Mindless · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Actually, I live about half a block away from one of those cheap pizza places in Europe (Stockholm, to be exact). Little hole in the wall place. Run by Kurdish immigrants. Great (and dirt-cheap) pizzas, and their calzone are to die for. As good as some I've had in Italy.

      So, no, I guess that I don't really know what you're talking about. :)

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      Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
  2. First to run and first to post. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First to run, first to post. Adios, muchachos.

  3. Editors please! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The point of having editors is to fix the glaringly obvious errors and check sources.

    "Cought"!

    For crying out loud.

  4. Re:Call wikipedia by jonadab · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That doesn't belong on Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a venue for that sort of thing. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and people like you are polluting it with all kinds of unencyclopedic content that doesn't belong there. Stop it.

    If you want to post definitions, you should put them on Wiktionary.

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    Cut that out, or I will ship you to Norilsk in a box.
  5. Re:There is much more to this than the Summary sta by deniable · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Hate to tell you this, but I haven't seen anything about this in Perth. This is the first I've heard of it. 'Chief Treasurer' as you put it would be the Treasurer, Troy Buswell. He's also Minister for Commerce and the grant likely came from the part of DOIR that now works for him. It's a Commerce matter, not Treasury and Finance, but he's been quiet on both fronts.