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BSA Use Photo without Permission in Campaign

posted by LaminatorX on Wednesday March 26 2014, @05:27PM   Printer-friendly
from the couldn't-happen-to-a-nicer-bunch-of-people dept.

lhsi writes:

Torrentfreak has announced an amusing case of being hoisted by one's own petard:

The Business Software Alliance, a trade group representing Adobe, Apple and Microsoft, has been caught using a "stolen" photo in one of their anti-piracy campaigns. The group is running various Facebook ads to convince people to snitch on pirates, but this effort has backfired terribly.

After being contacted about the use of a photo of a pot of gold by Torrentfreak, the BSA didn't respond and within an hour the advert had mysteriously disappeared.

 
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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 26 2014, @05:43PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 26 2014, @05:43PM (#21616)

    They do it all the time. Here's the Sony rootkit which was supposed to hinder unauthorized copying, but which itself infringed several copyrights.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_rootkit#Copyrig ht_infringement [wikipedia.org]

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