XBox division steal from Microsoft!!!!

[Fafalada]

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Wilson Delancy, 36, of Maple Valley in Washington, was also ordered to pay $4 million in compensation to Microsoft. He was convicted of acting as a middleman in the sale of stolen SQL Server packages obtained from another Microsoft employee, Kori Robin Brown.

Brown, a former administrative assistant in the company's Xbox group, was jailed for 17 months last November for her involvement in the scam.

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(in other news, old title topic - DOJ investigating BluRay group)

Yay more bad news for Hitachi Ltd., LG Electronics, Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Philips Electronics NV, Panasonic, Pioneer Electronics Corp., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Sharp Corp., Thomson Multimedia SA. Sony!!!

http://dvd.ign.com/articles/475/475534p1.html
http://money.cnn.com/2004/01/26/technology/dvd_standard.reut/
http://www.cdfreaks.com/news2.php?ID=8957
http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2004/01/26/bluray/
http://www.soknet.com/?page=1
http://www.theforumz.com/forumz/showthread.php?s=32bb4c42c69aa56660ad5904278a8858&threadid=74580
http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=fp-pull-web-t&p=bluray+group+founding+members
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(sorry couldn't find more links to the same article yet )

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January 26, 2004 - The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday that the U.S. Department of Justice has started a preliminary inquiry into activities by the Blu-ray Disc Founders (BDF), a coalition of electronics vendors led Sony Corp., Matsushita, Philips and seven other major electronics companies.


The investigation is looking to determine whether the group's members potentially acted in concert to impede the technical progress of the DVD Forum, which has a competing high definition DVD format called HD-DVD.

The Forum approved HD-DVD over Blu-ray as the next-generation format to succeed the DVD format. The DVD Forum is a consortium of consumer electronics firms that was created to help facilitate the DVD specification, and all of the participants in the Blu-ray effort are Forum members. HD-DVD was developed by Toshiba and NEC and was originally known as AOD, or advanced optical disc.

Not much is known about the investigation and all of the parties involved are being awfully quiet. A Justice Department spokeswoman declined to comment to WSJ. A U.S. spokeswoman for Japan's Sony said the company wasn't aware of any inquiry by the Justice Department. A Matsushita spokesman in Japan also said he wasn't aware of such an inquiry. A representative for Philips didn't return calls.
-- Andy Patrizio

 

[Deadmeat]

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I already posted it here like 2 days ago.

Why is it that Faf can post negative news about Sony while I can't do the same without thread lock, deletion, and personal harassment???

 

[London Geezer]

Re: SONY being investigated by the DOJ

U joker...