A former employee of a engineering company called AutoDesk and reported that the company was using 14 or so illegal copies of AutoCAD. Within a couple of days the BSA and AutoDesk's own piracy division came in the middle of the night and started checking computers to see what software was loaded. The next day the employees came to work and were interviewed to find out any information they knew. The company settled out of court and ended up paying over $500,000.00 for the software.
I have heard of three other instances of this happening. I have only heard stories where AutoDesk is involved. They come in the middle of the night take inventory and fine you in the morning.
I don't know what involvement the local or federal agencies play in this but it would seem like the BSA or whoever would have to get a search warrant. But if they had some kind of prove that software was stolen how hard would it be to get one?
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A former employee of a engineering company called AutoDesk and reported that the company was using 14 or so illegal copies of AutoCAD. Within a couple of days the BSA and AutoDesk's own piracy division came in the middle of the night and started checking computers to see what software was loaded. The next day the employees came to work and were interviewed to find out any information they knew. The company settled out of court and ended up paying over $500,000.00 for the software.
I have heard of three other instances of this happening. I have only heard stories where AutoDesk is involved. They come in the middle of the night take inventory and fine you in the morning.
I don't know what involvement the local or federal agencies play in this but it would seem like the BSA or whoever would have to get a search warrant. But if they had some kind of prove that software was stolen how hard would it be to get one?