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Samsung Employees Conspired To Sell AMOLED Tech; 11 Arrested

Posted by timothy on from the theft-is-intellectual-property dept.

zacharye writes with this snippet from BGR: "Nearly a dozen suspects have been arrested and charged with crimes related to the theft and sale of AMOLED display technology under development at Samsung. Yonhap News Agency on Thursday reported that 11 suspects either currently or formerly employed by Samsung Mobile Display have been arrested. One 46-year-old researcher at Samsung is believed to have accepted a payment of nearly $170,000 from an unnamed 'local rival firm' in exchange for trade secrets pertaining to proprietary Samsung technology used in the company's AMOLED panels..."

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  1. Re:This is what happens by AikonMGB · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Consider the readership demographic: either you already know what AMOLED is (it is fairly well known in mobile tech circles), or you are sufficiently cognizant to look it up yourself.

  2. Re:This is what happens by Intrepid+imaginaut · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I haven't the time to look up every acronym and backronym on the entire internet. I strongly suspect very few people do. As a basic standard any news reporter should clarify at a minimum the more eldritch terms. And this isn't being particularly picky, it is a literal journalistic standard.

  3. Re:Who benefits the most? by cos(0) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Is that a way to justify theft?

    Some people also benefit from armored money trucks spilling their cargo over a highway.

    But it raises the cost of doing business, and ultimately society pays a price for that.