★ PEOPLES ★ FRENCH PIRACY CLAIM BY PRIDE (POPULAR COMPUTING WEEKLY) ★ |
French piracy claim by Pride (Popular Computing Weekly) |
AMSTRAD software supplier Pride Utilities is currently engaged in legal action with French software distributor ESAT over the alleged piracy of Pride's range of Amstrad utilities. According to Frank Severini of Pride, France is a particularly lucrative market for utilities, and Pride gained large orders from ESAT for its software. "But during the past few months orders dropped off, and payments slowed up, until they owed us £10,000." Pride sent an agent to ESAT's shop in Bordeaux to investigate and he, says Severini, discovered numerous people busily duplicating Pride's software. Pride has since obtained £9,000 in settlement of the money owed, and is taking criminal action against ESAT for piracy. Severini says that French distribution is now being handled by Polisoft. Popular Computing Weekly (1986-12)
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