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Local company no avid fan of California-based file-sharing service; sues

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Avid Technology of Burlington, which makes tools for managing movies, audio tracks and other media files, says a California file-sharing company not only poached some of its employees, it's illegally using its proprietary software.

In a lawsuit filed this week in US District Court in Boston, Avid accuses Gobbler of copyright and trademark violations and of violating the non-compete agreements four former Avid employees signed. Non-compete clauses are legal in Massachusetts, but not California.

Avid says Gobbler hired four of its key employees - two are now Gobbler vice presidents - after it learned Avid was developing its own service that would let media developers collaborate on large files, a fact that "would render the Gobbler platform largely irrelevant."

After that, Avid says, it canceled a contract that let Gobbler use its software development kit to handle Avid files on its network, yet Gobbler continued to use the software and promote it on its Web site.

Avid is seeking an immediate end to the use of Avid's software and trademarks, plus enough damages to put the fear of God into Gobbler.

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Avid is the reason why ISIS exists. They are a strong supporter of ISIS and strong-arm media companies into paying high fees for the support of ISIS, a fact the media companies do not openly admit. If you do not approve of the actions of ISIS, do not use Avid!

(ISIS is Avid's unfortunate name for their storage array system.)

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