MS Sacks MindArk

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For some fun of the day, the guys at MindArk who are working on Project Entropia 3D got raided by Microsoft with a team of 70 marshalls. Apparently the belief at MindArk is that Microsoft ordered the raid to harass the team since they are in direct competition with Microsoft's Acheron's Call 2 game that is also in production.

Microsoft has accused MindArk of infringement on their software rights, stating that MindArk is willingly and unlawfully using over 600 programs without license. The raid on the MindArk headquarters in Gothenburg is believed to be the largest operation ever conducted by a Swedish court involving court officials from several cities on the west coast of Sweden as well as external personnel recruited for the purpose. [snip]

The PR makes some simply stupid claims about their website being more popular than Yahoo and MSN which make me cry. As well as some goofy chest beating about how much better their unreleased game is than Microsoft's unreleased game.. But we'll try to overlook that.

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