Information Week’s Mitch Wagner posts an excellent question to the internet community. Are there any examples of a company fighting piracy and launching lawsuits as a successful business strategy?

Wagner has several examples of the opposite; where lawsuits only alienate customers. He begins with Hasbro’s recent takedown of the popular Scrabulous game on Facebook to launched its own unpopular Scrabble game, coving the music industry and Garfield.  Matt Mason’s “The Pirate’s Dilemma” is a book length list of examples of lawsuits hurting businesses.

There are even examples of companies embracing piracy to improve their businesses.

So does anyone have an example of lawsuits helping companies?

[Via Techdirt]