Sony BMG one of the largest supporters of the RIAA and IFPI’s anti-piracy campaigns has had the tables turned on them this week by french software company PointDev, PointDev are now suing Sony BMG for software piracy of their products after a support call from a Sony IT employee.

Sony BMG are one of the largest media companies on the planet and probably most famed for their music division, isn’t it ironic then that the very company who with their music Cd’s included stealth rootkit installers for DRM are now being sued for piracy.

The pirated software was discovered when a Sony BMG IT worker called PointDev for support on one of their products named Ideal Migration, during this call the Sony worker was generous enough to supply a pirated licence code to the PointDev support department. The information PointDev had received was then used to request a seizure of Sony BMG asset’s which in turn led to the discovery of 4 servers that had pirated copies of Ideal Migration installed at Sony’s offices.

Astonishingly The Business Software Alliance indicated that up to 47 percent of the software installed on Sony BMG’s computers could be pirated.

Paul-Henry, PointDev’s CEO, says it’s not about the money

“We are forced to watch every week if key software pirates are not [sic] on the Internet. We are a small company of six employees. Instead of trying to protect us, we could spend this time to develop ourselves.”

It’s going to be interesting to watch exactly how Sony plan to wriggle themselves out of this one, i can see the company checkbook being used to some extent before a court appearance ever happens though. And a tip for everyone out there if your going to phone a company for support make sure your version of the software is a legal one.

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