A US based firm is suing Chinese government for alleged piracy of a internet filtering software which is meant for filtering content off from the internet. The US firm says that the Chinese government has copied some of it code from US based company called Cybersitter, Cybersitter is the company which produce software for online content filtering which filed a 2.2 billion lawsuit on the Chinese government two other Chinese software firm and seven computer makers
China claimed that Green Dam would help protect children from pornographic and violent content on the internet; Green Dam is content-control software claims to be developed by the Chinese government to prevent explicit content to be viewed by the young audience. On July 2009 it was made mandatory to have Green Dam installed in all the computers sold in china but later it was dropped and only made mandatory for schools, colleges and few public places to have Green Dam installed in them.
Later on June of 2009 Scott Wolchok, Randy Yao, and J. Alex Halderman from the University of Michigan found several security vulnerabilities and flaws in the Green Dam program which allowed malicious sites to steal private data and send spam due to this they asked the users to uninstall the product as it was not safe anymore apart from this security flaws they also found many blacklisted files have also being used in the Green Dam software the files were mainly from the Cybersitter program. So Cybersitter last week filed a 2.2 billion law suite on the Chinese government and jinhui Computer System Engineering for stealing more then five thousand lines of code from Cybersitter
The Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology is yet to comment on the lawsuit.
The way China is putting restrictions on Internet, I bet one day they will be back to stone age!!!
Some thing is really going wrong with them. This is not all appreciated . . hope they will do the things in a better way . .
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They will never understand wat so ever happens dude. They will block all websites and one day they will announce internet is banned in china because of its risk to Chinese goverment and the tradition of China.lol
China won’t ban internet for sure
They have their own search engine, own messenger, own video channel and own social communities.. remember they have the largest population!
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There are many sites which are spreading illegal softwares. These sites should be banned.
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Practically they are impossible mate. First demonoid was blocked, but now its released, They then banned my ex-favorite P2P eDonkey, but still people use Torrents. Rapidshare and Uploading.com take software piracy to the next step. Anyone can now upload any pirated software on web, No one can check and block them. Software privacy will continue. Now coming to the point, China implements its Great Wall to block its people doing illegal activities, but they themselves copy code and break the ethics..
First it was hackers (http://techchunks.com/technology/microsoft-admits-chinese-hackers-exploited-internet-explorer-flaw-to-attack-google/), then came the Internet Censorship (http://techchunks.com/blogging/the-great-firewall-strikes-again-after-imdb-now-china-blocks-wired-com/) and now piracy.
China seriously needs an image makeover.
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lol. China and Internet are becoming two controversial twins now
Well, Chinese are involved in many internet crimes, its good to see they are sued.