Newb question about LGPL license

[model76]

I remember an event a few years back, where Sony got busted for using someones GPL'ed code in one of their commercial, closed source projects.
Sony's response was something along the lines of "You don't own a patent, so too bad for you", and that was that. End of story.

Maybe someone else can remember some more details?

[pdusen]

I remember an event a few years back, where Sony got busted for using someones GPL'ed code in one of their commercial, closed source projects.
Sony's response was something along the lines of "You don't own a patent, so too bad for you", and that was that. End of story.

Maybe someone else can remember some more details?

All I could find on the subject was this. It doesn't mention any comments from Sony, and apparently the author of the infringed library never responded to attempts at contact.