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Russian Police Raid U.S.-Owned Web Server Nginx’s Moscow Office

posted by Fnord666 on Saturday December 14 2019, @06:52AM   Printer-friendly
from the follow-the-rubles dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2019/12/13/russia-nginx-fsb-raid-a68606

Russian police raided the Moscow offices of a popular U.S.-owned web server over a Russian search engine giant's ownership claim of its source code, Forbes Russia reported Thursday.

Authorities raided Nginx's Moscow office based on a copyright infingement claim by Russian oligarch Alexander Mamut's Cyprus-registered investment vehicle Lynwood, Forbes Russia cited an unnamed source at the web server as saying. Mamut became part owner of Russia's 1990s-era search giant Rambler with fellow oligarch Vladimir Potanin in 2013 and bought out Potanin's stake three years later.

"We found that Rambler Internet Holding's exclusive right to the Nginx web server has been violated by the actions of third parties," Rambler's spokesperson told Forbes.

"In this regard, Rambler Internet Holding ceded the rights to bring claims and lawsuits linked to rights violations toward Nginx to Lynwood Investments CY Ltd," it continued.

Authorities estimate Rambler's losses from the alleged copyright infringement at 51.4 million rubles ($820,000), according to a copy of a criminal case cited by Forbes and other news outlets.

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 14 2019, @06:15PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 14 2019, @06:15PM (#932100)

    We already had something like this in open source. It was with KiCAD and all I know is that it led to KiCAD having no working auto-routing engine. Generally, the same thing: Guy works as some engineer or other designer, makes some project, company claims that it's their as it was made during time he was employed with no such things in the contract.
    It looks that the answer "fight against being a slave" is too leftist for some free market maniacs.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 14 2019, @07:50PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 14 2019, @07:50PM (#932135)

    people need to sack up and start dropping lawyers.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 14 2019, @08:25PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 14 2019, @08:25PM (#932149)

      The people that get hit by this generally can't afford the lawyers it would take to defend themselves. The companies doing it already have legal teams on staff so their cost is marginal.