据techcrunch消息：周五，社交游戏开发商Playdom前一雇员因涉嫌窃取竞争对手Zynga的商业机密被法院判处监禁和罚款。

Zynga去年秋天起诉了竞争对手游戏开发商Playdom（最近被迪斯尼收购），起诉的理由包括窃取商业机密、违反合同和不履行应尽职责等。不过，最主要的是Zynga诉Playdom窃取产商业机密“Zynga Playbook”。该案仍在继续，并且其戏剧性日前达到极至。法院周五对Zynga和Playdom前员工雷蒙德·霍尔姆斯（Raymond Holmes）进行了判决，判处他10天监禁和4000美元的罚款。对于霍尔姆斯来说幸运的是，法官马克·皮耶斯（Mark Pierce）随后改判他缓刑。这意味着霍尔姆斯不会服狱，除非他再次激怒这位法官。

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霍尔姆斯到底做了什么？现在的情况是，笔记本电脑上证据以及Mozy的备份已经遭到毁灭，不能够认定其它存储设备存有Zynga文档。但法院称，霍尔姆斯承认他做了不适当的事情并且作了道歉。但对于Playdom来说，糟糕的是法院判决的最后一句话。这句话说：“关于霍尔姆斯抹去他的硬盘数据而导致数据消失，强加一个支持Zynga的能够反驳性的证据认定是合适的。”Zynga的法律顾问雷吉·戴维斯（Reggie Davis）表示：“我们很高兴法院认真地对Playdom前雇员窃取Zynga资料行为进行的处理。”

今年初，美国加州圣克拉拉法院撤销了针对Playdom最初的判令，宣布了针对Playdom的新的初步判决，暗示Zynga关于商业机密被窃取的指控可能在审理中获得胜利，并且据推测将要停止Playdom计划推出的几款游戏。

Last fall Zynga sued rival gaming developer Playdom (recently acquired by Disney) for an array of issues including misappropriation of trade secrets, breach of contract, and breach of the duty of loyalty.

In short Zynga accused Playdom of stealing its confidential ‘Zynga Playbook‘.

The case continues, but the drama has reached its peak. The court today held one former Zynga and Playdom employee, Raymond Holmes, in contempt and sentenced him to ten days in county jail and a $4,000 fine. Fortunately for Holmes, Judge Mark Pierce then suspended the sentence. That means Holmes won’t do the time unless he continues to, well, piss off Judge Pierce. The full order is embedded below.

What did Holmes do? Lots of things apparently: destruction of evidence on laptop, destruction of Mozy backup, failure to identify other storage devices with Zynga documents and the signing of two false court certificates. The court says Holmes admitted to his improper actions and apologized.

Worse still for Playdom is the last sentence of the court document. It says it’s “appropriate to impose a non rebutable evidentiary presumption in favor of Zynga regarding the meta data lost when Def Holmes erased his hard drive.”

Reggie Davis, General Counsel, Zynga says: “We are pleased that the Court treated destruction of stolen Zynga materials by a then-current Playdom employee, and violations of two court orders, with the seriousness they deserve.”

Earlier this year a court in Santa Clara dissolved the initial restraining order against Playdom issued a new preliminary injunction against Playdom finding that Zynga likely to prevail at trial on their trade secret theft claims, and (supposedly) stopping the release of several games scheduled to be released by Playdom.（source：techcrunch/techweb）