[Commons-Law] Microsoft appeals French piracy fine

[Badri Natarajan]

At 12:29 PM 6/24/2003 +0530, you wrote:
>Microsoft appeals French piracy fine
>http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/7/31372.html
>Microsoft went to court in France last week to appeal its conviction in
>2001 for software piracy, for which it was ordered to pay $425,000 in
>damages, costs and interest. Today we publish an eyewitness account of
>the appeal by Lionel Berthomier, who has been covering the case almost
>single-handedly since 1996.

I know absolutely nothing about the background of this case, but this 
account of it is hardly what I'd call unbiased journalism. The Register 
claims they are publishing an eyewitness account of the case, which is 
fine, but the whole thing reads like "If It's Microsoft, They Must Be 
Guilty". Everything Microsoft claims or says is treated as an allegation or 
a claim, while everything the other side says is treated as fact. Now that 
might actually be the true state of facts, but the whole tone of the 
article leaves me suspicious about believing a lot of it.

I don't think Microsoft are Nice People - far from it - but they are not in 
the wrong every single time.

Badri Natarajan
Legal Intern
Electronic Frontier Foundation.


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