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Microsoft Philippines sued for Piracy!

Abe Olandres Editor-in-chief December 18, 2007 · 1 min read

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Now that one’s for the books! A Pasay City School has filed a law suit against Microsoft Philippines for pirating copyrighted material. [ Digg this! ]

The school, Southeastern College (SEC), filed a Php100 Million (~$2.5 Million) copyright infringement case against Redmond giant Microsoft and Microsoft Philippines. The case alleges that Microsoft illegally copied and distributed a copyrighted teacher training manual developed by the school.

The video above is of Atty. Estelito Mendoza, lead counsel of Southeastern College (recorded by INQUIRER.net reporter Lawrence Casiraya).

Microsoft Philippines stated earlier that they tried to settle this dispute with SEC to no avail. It is possible there was offer for compensation but they did not agree on the figures. Must be way below the Php100 Million mark.

This case is the first of its kind in the Philippines against Microsoft and it will be interesting to see how this pans out.

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62 Comments

Philippinen-Nick · 15 years ago

ha, i have seen copys of software, video and music all over the philippines. Especially in Manila and in Boracay they are sold on the open street.

evanonsense · 17 years ago

Any update about this case?

garce!! · 18 years ago

why does the sum go on shinning

countOcram · 18 years ago

interesting… :D

Nighthawk · 18 years ago

Good for them…MS has been doing that to anybody. Now the table’s turned on them! Fight Pinoy!

Chuching · 18 years ago

Wow! That’s a weird news. Microsoft being sued for Piracy. Nice!

henryc · 18 years ago

WHEW …. Tingnan natin anong mangyari sa kasong ito…

JC John SESE Cuneta · 18 years ago

ROFLOLZ!!! Microsoft Guilty of Piracy!!!!!!

Who would have expected that the #1 Anti-Piracy company are themselves guilty of piracy!!

so funny!!

Arnel Reodica · 18 years ago

I just hope that SEC will not settle into any agreement with Microsoft Philippines. The case though is tough, piracy coming from a very trusted software company in the country.

Tsk tsk……

Goe D · 18 years ago

This is really top and truly groundbreaking, please vote on it at http://www.ebenta.com in the featured article. Let the aggressor Microsoft have a dose of its own medicine. The interviewer though is quite annoying with his ‘uhmm’ ‘uhmm’ habit _@@_ lol!

ikuzawa · 18 years ago

lol..u complain so much bout pirating ur s2pid CD..taste ur own medicine..and this wouldnt be a big issue,coz microsoft phil would just bribe them to stfu..i hope this would be the last of microsoft phil here..greed kills..

Eugene · 18 years ago

Interesting… It seems many bloggers get their tech news from Yuga. Hehehe. This bit of news has been covered by Inquirer maybe about a day before Yuga blogged about it.

normanski · 18 years ago

hmm this should taste good! Microsoft Milk!

Go get em, hehe

Gian Paolo · 18 years ago

Whoa. Let’s see what happens next. Hahahaha.

Brlin · 18 years ago

of course the school will win, the judge wants a cut.

Connie · 18 years ago

OFF TOPIC, sorry, emergency.

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Cant access server anymore.

Ryan · 18 years ago

Isn’t “Microsoft being sued for piracy” a bit misleading? Just semantics I know, but since there was no money being made by microsoft then it’s not really piracy. One could argue that there was money lost by SEC, but that’s a little curious as well since it’s not like they were going to sell those tutorials anyway.

It was a silly gaffe by Microsoft, but I don’t think they they were willfully pirating, someone in the chain of command just slipped, and they didn’t catch it in time.