[net-gold] Cybersitter Sues China for Piracy

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Cybersitter Sues China for Piracy

Cybersitter Sues China for Piracy
By Joseph Menn in San Francisco
Published: January 6 2010 05:36 |
Last updated: January 6 2010 05:36

A small California company that was
one of the first to bring an internet
porn filter to market sued the government
of China and several major computer
companies on Tuesday, accusing them of
misappropriating its censorship program
for use in the controversial ?Green Dam?
project.

The family-owned CyberSitter filed
suit in the Los Angeles federal court,
seeking more than $2.2bn ? the
$40 list price of CyberSitter software
multiplied by the 56.5m copies of the
Green Dam censorship software
installed by June, according to the
Chinese government.

The case cites violations of trade
secret, copyright and unfair
competition laws and also names Sony,
Acer, Lenovo, Toshiba,Asustek and
other hardware and software companies
based in China and Taiwan as
defendants.

<snip>

A team from the University of
Michigan has also found that it contains
thousands of lines of code identical
to that in the CyberSitter program,
which has been sold for 14 years by
the Santa Barbara-based company.

<snip>

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[net-gold] Cybersitter Sues China for Piracy

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