Australia's Largest Police Force Accused of Widespread Piracy

beaverdownunder writes "UK software giant Micro Focus is demanding at least $10 million in damages from the New South Wales police for widespread use of unlicensed copies of its ViewNow software it is alleged were used by members to access the COPS criminal intelligence database. Although other government organisations also alleged to have mis-used the software have settled with Micro Focus, the NSW police refuse to do so, instead seeking to fight out a battle in Federal court."

Comments

Re:Are the cops getting cut off from the internet?

[K. S. Kyosuke]

Also note that when Micro Focus started investigating the cops illegal software copying, the cops began deleting the software from a number of systems.

That is willful destruction of evidence of a crime.

Sure, right, because that could have been in no way a move to cease breaking the law by keeping it.