NSW Police in legal battle with software giant

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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-04-24/nsw-police-in-legal-battle-with-software-giant/3970388

An extraordinary legal battle is shaping up in the Federal Court, with a multinational software company suing NSW Police for wide-scale copyright piracy.

UK software company Micro Focus is demanding at least $10 million in damages from NSW Police.

It claims NSW Police has been using pirated copies of their computer software for more than a decade to run their COPS (Computerised Operational Police System) - the largest criminal intelligence database in the country.

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Lawsuits:

The idea is to wait long enough so the damages become a sizeable amount, and then strike to prop up company value when necessary.

[CruNcher]

if you know they addicted them to it strike, they cant escape ;)


"The licences were for police only. Yet police were out there handing out our software like confetti," he said.

clever Admin ;)

"They've been continually deleting our product, they need to replace it with something.

"And that they've replaced it with another license they have no right to use, its just astonishing. It's madness."

lets see over 20 years of illegal use yeah that makes up some money, the citizens of Australia need to pay back to Micro Focus anyways so who cares about another million @ the end of the lawsuit sometime in the next 4 years ;)

[burfadel]

lets see over 20 years of illegal use yeah that makes up some money, the citizens of Australia need to pay back to Micro Focus anyways so who cares about another million @ the end of the lawsuit sometime in the next 4 years ;)

Not the citizens of Australia, just the citizens of NSW (well, the NSW government).