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Sony in hot water over software piracy



Having spent years aggressively fighting MP3 piracy, it is somewhat ironic that a recent raid on the company has led to a small software house suing the music giant for 300,000 Euros ($471,000 / £235,600). PointDev claims that it found Sony BMG was using unlicensed software after a support call was logged using a pirated keycode.

PointDev claims that Sony BMG had been using the pirated software since 2004.

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