It’s a given that Sony BMG are fairly active in the world of piracy due to the current state of affairs in the industry, bringing to justice those ‘evil’ propagators and perpetrators of illegal file sharing.
It turns out however that they’ve been busier than you may think; in between the numerous individual court cases and the anti-piracy software that they hid in their CDs – to the outrage of many – they’ve found time to bag themselves a slice of the free illegal software pie.
PointDev, a software company from France, got tipped off to Sony BMG using their software with a pirated license code, with a subsequent raid confirming the illegal usage of the software. To further taint Sony BMG’s image, and illuminate their hypocrisy, the Business Software Alliance suspects that up to 47 percent of the software installed on Sony BMG’s computers could be pirated.
It’s all a bit ironic really.
