Sometimes real life is stranger than any video game. When Swedish computer game designer MindArk, maker of the controversial Project Entropia role-playing world, announced Thursday that Microsoft was behind the raid of its corporate offices, the claim sounded like a Gates-hater's most paranoid delusion. But it turns out this is no fantasy. At the request of Microsoft, Adobe Systems, other members of the Business Software Alliance (BSA) and nearly 70 local court officials in Gothenburg, Sweden, swept through MindArk's offices, temporarily shutting down company operations while the bailiffs catalogued every piece of software in the place.
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