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Offline menotu

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Blog: Sony Pirates KDE Artwork
« on: February 21, 2013, 06:43:11 AM »
Submitted by Jonathan Riddell - blogs.kde.org

Sony, the company who created Audio CDs which installed a rootkit on Windows computer to try to stop people copying music has pirated KDE artwork. The preferences-system.png icon from Oxygen is on their Choose your Vaio webpages (next to configure) but impressively is also on the UEFI firmware should you boot up into Assist mode. Nowhere on their website terms of use does it list the LGPL 3 licence it may be copied under (It does say "Any unauthorised use or copying of site content, or use of site content which breaches these Terms (or their spirit) may violate trade mark, copyright and other proprietary rights, and have civil and criminal consequences" although it also says "You must seek and obtain the written consent the operator of this site before creating any link to this site" so I don't give that page any legal credit.)

Should KDE e.V. and Nuno's Oxygen friends start a new business model by sueing them for everything they're worth?  (   ;D  ;D  ;D )

https://blogs.kde.org/2013/02/21/sony-pirates-kde-artwork

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I can see it in the bottom section of the page below How does personalisation work?

Its then to the left of

2. configure
Choose the internal specs of your VAIO



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Re: Blog: Sony Pirates KDE Artwork
« Reply #1 on: February 21, 2013, 07:33:42 AM »
Whoa... Nice find menotu... :)

Thanks for sharing.

Andrzej

Offline zerocool

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Re: Blog: Sony Pirates KDE Artwork
« Reply #2 on: February 21, 2013, 09:31:32 AM »

That's a great opportunity to raise some money for KDE.

Sell the image to Sony for mmm, $2,000,000 should cover it!

KDE can make another from scratch, cause they don't need to
steal their icons...

KDE needs to get PAID!!! $$$

 ;D



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Re: Blog: Sony Pirates KDE Artwork
« Reply #3 on: February 22, 2013, 04:04:58 AM »
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Should KDE e.V. and Nuno's Oxygen friends start a new business model by sueing them for everything they're worth?
In a word, YES !!!  :D

The likelihood of an Artist employed by Sony to just happen to create an exact copy of 'preferences-system.png icon' will be seen as very slim in a court of law.

Yes, really interesting find Menotu !
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Re: Blog: Sony Pirates KDE Artwork
« Reply #4 on: February 22, 2013, 06:12:50 AM »
As the ancient Romans said, "Soc Et Tuem!"  ;D ;D ;D