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Arrests For Selling Poison-Ware In Spain

Posted by kdawson on from the end-of-a-reign dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Spain's FBI equivalent has arrested the management of a software company (Google translation; Spanish original) for selling custom software to small and medium-sized businesses with 'controlled errors' that resulted in the software bombing on a predetermined date. They would then charge for fixing the problem and press the client into buying a maintenance contract. More than 1,000 clients were affected."

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  1. It's not unusual. by bmo · · Score: 0, Troll

    This is merely a subscription business model.

    It's much like what Microsoft has been pushing through their software licensing extortion^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H contracts.

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    BMO