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January 14, 2009, Wednesday
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MICROSOFT is seeking nearly 500,000 yuan (US$73,153) in compensation from a local IT company, accusing it of using pirated Microsoft software.
The United States company told the Shanghai No. 2 Intermediate People's Court yesterday that Shanghai Dare Global Information Industry Co Ltd, a maker of set-top boxes, had been using pirate copies of nine kinds of its software products. These were five sets of Windows XP Professional, 10 sets of Windows 2000 Professional, 33 sets of Windows XP Home, seven sets of Office Professional Edition 2003, 64 sets of Office Professional Edition 2000, three sets of Office XP Professional, six sets of Visual Studio 6.0, one set of Visual Studio.net 2003 and one set of Windows 2000 Advanced Server.
Microsoft wanted Dare Global to stop using the copies and to delete them.
"Even the day before the hearing, we found the defendant was still using pirated software when we went to its office for a check with the Shanghai Copyright Bureau," Ma Yuanchao, Microsoft's lawyer, told the court.
He said bureau officers carried out spot checks at the Dare Global office on March 16, 2006, and found copies of pirated software being used.
"The pirated software was used in the workplace for the company's daily work. So they used the software for commercial use," Ma said.
Dare Global denied it was still using pirated software. It had taken measures to correct its mistake after the bureau's visit, its lawyer said.
By August 2008, all the software used by Dare Global was genuine, the defendant said, providing invoices to prove it had bought legal software.
Dare Global also disputed the number of pirated copies detailed in the lawsuit. It said only 22 sets of Windows XP Home and 53 sets of Office Professional Edition 2000 were pirated.
The court didn't announce a verdict.
Last month, 11 people were jailed for pirating Microsoft products.
Futian District People's Court in Shenzhen in Guangdong Province heard that the 11 had made copies worth 305.65 million yuan.
They were jailed for terms between 18 months and six-and-a-half years.
The United States company told the Shanghai No. 2 Intermediate People's Court yesterday that Shanghai Dare Global Information Industry Co Ltd, a maker of set-top boxes, had been using pirate copies of nine kinds of its software products. These were five sets of Windows XP Professional, 10 sets of Windows 2000 Professional, 33 sets of Windows XP Home, seven sets of Office Professional Edition 2003, 64 sets of Office Professional Edition 2000, three sets of Office XP Professional, six sets of Visual Studio 6.0, one set of Visual Studio.net 2003 and one set of Windows 2000 Advanced Server.
Microsoft wanted Dare Global to stop using the copies and to delete them.
"Even the day before the hearing, we found the defendant was still using pirated software when we went to its office for a check with the Shanghai Copyright Bureau," Ma Yuanchao, Microsoft's lawyer, told the court.
He said bureau officers carried out spot checks at the Dare Global office on March 16, 2006, and found copies of pirated software being used.
"The pirated software was used in the workplace for the company's daily work. So they used the software for commercial use," Ma said.
Dare Global denied it was still using pirated software. It had taken measures to correct its mistake after the bureau's visit, its lawyer said.
By August 2008, all the software used by Dare Global was genuine, the defendant said, providing invoices to prove it had bought legal software.
Dare Global also disputed the number of pirated copies detailed in the lawsuit. It said only 22 sets of Windows XP Home and 53 sets of Office Professional Edition 2000 were pirated.
The court didn't announce a verdict.
Last month, 11 people were jailed for pirating Microsoft products.
Futian District People's Court in Shenzhen in Guangdong Province heard that the 11 had made copies worth 305.65 million yuan.
They were jailed for terms between 18 months and six-and-a-half years.
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