Suit Accuses China, PC Makers of Piracy

A $2.2 billion lawsuit has been filed in federal court today accusing China of software piracy and code theft. China accused of software piracy? How can this be?

A California company filed a software piracy lawsuit on Tuesday against the Chinese government, two Chinese software developers, and seven PC manufacturers alleging that they illegally copied code from its Web content filtering program and distributed that code as part of a censorship effort sponsored by the Chinese government.

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