India is a country where anything can happen. I really did mean “anything”.
Software piracy if on fifth gear in India and the main targets are obviously Microsoft products. Microsoft isn’t happy with them at all.
Recently it filed a case against the software pirates from Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chandigarh and Mumbai at Delhi for using their software without proper legal permission.
What you think would have happened – Those pirates got fined and are leaving a good life now.
What happened – Microsoft got fined and had to pay $4000 to every one of the defendants of the case i.e 4 defendants X 4000 = $16,000
Delhi High Court had fined Microsoft because it thought Microsoft was using its cash flow to harass the Indian pirates who had to come all the way from different cities to Delhi, the national capital to defend themselves while the cases could have been solved in the local courts also.
What Microsoft did was not illegal but as per Justice Dhingra’s comment,
When the constitution of India provides equality before law, this equality has to be all pervasive and cannot be allowed to be diluted because of money power or lobbying power,
Now this is called a fair decision.
