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US outfit takes on the Chinese government
A US SECURITY OUTFIT is suing the Chinese government over its endorsement of the Green Dam Youth Escort software that includes part of its code.
Solid Oak Software, which sells the similar Cybersitter parental controls Internet filtering program, filed the $2.2 billion civil action in federal court in Los Angeles.
The company also sued the two Chinese software developers who developed the Chinese software and still left Cybersitter references within it. Solid Oak has also sued seven PC manufacturers alleging that they distributed that code as part of a censorship effort sponsored by the Chinese government.
The manufacturers include Sony, Toshiba, Lenovo, Acer, AsusteK, BenQ, Haier, Zhengzhou Jinhui Computer System Engineering and the Beijing Dazheng Human Language Technology Academy.
We are fairly sure that the hardware manufacturers will be dismissed as defendants because they were ordered to use the software by the Chinese government.
It is interesting that a foreign government can be hauled into a US court over copyright infringement allegedly committed by its supplier. Even if it is found culpable by blessing the Green Dam Youth Escort software it might be a little hard to get it to follow US law and pay up.
The Chinese government first delayed implementation of the policy and then diluted it, requiring the use of Green Dam on computers only in schools and at Internet cafes.
The lawsuit alleges that the Chinese government initially paid Jinhui and Dazheng about $6.9 million for a one-year license to distribute the Green Dam program and then charged "substantial" license fees to computer manufacturers and others to use it, while also offering it for free download from the Internet. µ
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The Chinese are such putzs, a fool would have stripped out the code directly referring to Cybersitter. They have proven that they can't do it themselves. So they have to rely on the help of the Good Ole US of A, even if by outright theft.
Methinks he'll soon be able to order a new Mercedes.
The client, on the other hand, is going to find out that the Chinese government doesn't give a fig about US copyright law unless it feels like it.
There is only one thing that the judge should tell Solid Oak .. in the words of Nelson - HAHA HAHA HAHA HAHA HAHA HAHA!
£5 says some lawyer told them they have a chance of winning ... what he didnt tell them is that regardless of what the wigged on in Yanksland says .. China will just say ... "dile...mao"