British Police Accused of Stealing Software

judgecorp writes "The West Yorkshire police force is in the British High court today, accused of stealing intellectual property from a firm whose software decodes forensic data from mobile phones. Forensic Telecoms Services claims the force illegally used and sold copyright data from a commercial mobile phone forensics application it had been using in high profile cases."

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Re:But but..

[iamhassi]

but it is stealing. If you wrote code for a program and sold that program, and then someone looked at your code, wrote it down word-for-word, and then started selling it themselves, that's stealing:
"FTS became aware that West Yorkshire Police was developing its own software called CLIVE in the summer of that year. The claim alleges that CLIVE replicated errors found in the lists used for Hex in a “tell-tale sign of copying.”"

It would have been better if they pirated the software, at least then they wouldn't have been reselling it and stealing profit from FTS