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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. Re:Bunch of Asian Employees ? by fractoid · · Score: 1, Troll

    Australia is part of Asia. A decent proportion of our population are of Asian origin. If you're talking about foreign computer science students who want to stay on in Perth to make games, the percentage goes up even higher. :) That said, though IZ was a very diverse group of people from all over the world.

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  2. Re:Bunch of Asian Employees ? by fractoid · · Score: 0, Troll

    Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot the map demarcations on Wikipedia define whether or not we're part of Asia or not.

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  3. Re:Bunch of Asian Employees ? by mdwh2 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot the claims of one random person on Slashdot define whether a country is part of Asia or not.

  4. Hang him by the balls... by blind+biker · · Score: 0, Troll

    for a day or two, and then shoot him in the head. One less psychopath in the world can only be a good thing.

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  5. Re:Call wikipedia by Colin+Smith · · Score: 0, Troll

    Maybe it's time the techies realized that they are working class and not the professional class many have thought of themselves.

    I've found it amusing for quite a while that developers call themselves "engineers" despite not following any forms of engineering practice. Not to say there aren't software engineers, but they're few and far between, maybe 1% or so of developers. Most are really just tradesmen. Just like weavers.

     

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  6. capitalism by gd2shoe · · Score: 0, Troll

    Uhm, I'm guessing you're not in the US. You're certainly not in California (which is currently at war against small business).

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