Software maker sues China for $2.2bn over Green Dam web filter

CYBERsitter, LLC, the company that created the Internet filtering software of the same name, wants $2.2 billion in damages from China, two Chinese software makers and seven PC makers, according to an Informationweek report. The California-based company claims China's filtering project known as Green Dam included code copied from the CYBERsitter filtering program. No comment yet from the Chinese government.