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Australia's Largest Police Force Accused of Widespread Piracy

Posted by timothy on from the professional-research-purposes-only dept.

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."

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  1. lawyers are no better by clickclickdrone · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    A friend who has worked for several lawyer firms says they never buy more than one copy of anything and often swap software with other firms. He thought it pretty much standard legal firm behaviour from what his collegues had said.

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  2. Re:How dare they! by Sparx139 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Replying to undo accidental overrated mod, please ignore

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