Generally speaking, we don’t really deal with “business news” or tech stuff here on The Cynics’, but I feel this story I just came across in Wired deserves a mention because it involves hypocrisy on a Washington-style scale. Sony/BMG, a massively ginormous music and entertainment company has been suing people, places and things left and right for the past eight years over piracy of its music and movies. In the kind of ironic twist only a close observer of politics can fully appreciate, the company now finds itself in trouble for pirating computer software.

PointDev, which makes Windows administration software, claims that a raid on Sony/BMG servers revealed that as much as 47 percent of the software used by the company can be considered to have been pirated under French law…

The French aren’t know for either their law-making or law-abiding abilities, but I think we can safely conclude from this that Sony, a company that makes more money than god and has no qualms about suing your daughter to make you pay $4 every time you watch Pirates of the Caribbean, steals half of the software it uses despite the ability to easily pay for it. They are lying, stealing, thieving, conniving, extortionist criminals who act all high and mighty about intellectual property but steal that “property” just like eeeeverybody else.

Listen, you like music? Try Soulseek. Everything’s on there. Movies? Give Pirate’s Bay a shot. Cause these guys are a bunch of fucking clowns.

Sony/BMG Under Investigation for Software Piracy [Wired]