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- brandelec
company gets served with a $20k/computer fine for using pirated software... the list included ms office and adobe apps. there's at least 20 desktops in use.
rumor is a former designer dimed them out. owner on the phone with lawyer all morning. cheap mofo's2 days left for me in this place and i don;t doubt they suspect me for calling it in as well
- ukit0
It was you, wasn't it? Just admit it.
- pylon0
I worked at a studio that got busted as well, maybe seven years ago. They had legit versions of adobe and quark, but not MS and XP in the accounts despartment, ffs.
- juhls0
This is like Patrice (from "Keith and the Girl") leaving the job at the whore house a few weeks before they got busted by the police.
- harlequino0
How does one even get found out or proven to be doing that?
- ukit0
Who regulates this stuff anyway? The cops?
- ephix0
who fined them?
- TheBlueOne0
You're going to tell us about how you're going to walk into the owners office, cross your arms, lean against the door frame, smirk and say "So, how you doin'?"
- haha i actually asked if i could get a 'copy' of illustrator installed in one of the juniors' cpusbrandelec
- brandelec0
they're suspecting a former designer because the list was specific on creative apps: photoshop, illy, flash, corel, etc
- tasty0
- The last thing you see after they catch you and undo your trousers.harlequino
- canuck0
Worked at a place few years back also with some pirated stuff. Felt like snitching on them after I had left also.
- brandelec0
Sounds like the BSA (Business Software Alliance)
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/st…
- brandelec0
they're discussing a way outta this one like reformatting all the hard drives and purchasing a few legit licenses or somehow proving that although they're installed they're not in use.
wouldn't the BSA know you haven't had any licenses registered under your name/business for the past 10 years and all of a sudden you have a few.
- Machuse0
under what jurisdiction do they need to pay the fine?
Wouldnt someone need a court subpoena or warrant, to even consider going into the work place and search through the hard drives for licenses , I dont get it.
- sikma0
My guess is that adobe knows who's stealing their software and who's paying for it. Wouldn't be hard to track through various apps "phoning home" during updates. For the most part that info probably wouldn't be enough to launch a lawsuit against a company.
But if an employee snitched them out that may be different. Especially if it involved 20 computers.
- mayo0
I wonder if cracking down on this kind of thing will be happening a lot more so that the pirated company can get money during these economic times.
- brandelec0
99% sure it was a snitch - the notice was specific on the apps installed on each desktop. not sure really under what jurisdiction it would fall under.
just the fact that half the time apps don't work because people accidentally run windows update which bugs everything out and i'm sure it's the same with adobe updates
- didn't really affect me since qbn was working just finebrandelec
- TheBlueOne0
..and thus the rise of open source software will continue...
- brandelec0
http://www.digitalhome.ca/conten…
"The Business Software Alliance (BSA), an industry trade group whose goal is to stem software piracy, announced today that five Canadian companies have paid over of $175,000 in damages to the BSA for having pirated software on their computers."seems the lot are design-related companies. wouldn't doubt adobe apps call for hefty fines