is it true that microsoft would pay if someone would report people pirating their software? if yes, how much?
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is it true that microsoft would pay if someone would report people pirating their software? if yes, how much?
I dunno.. but why.. you thinking of becoming a snitch for hire ?
"I dunno.. but why.. you thinking of becoming a snitch for hire?"
LOL
-Maestr0
piracy is quite common here in the phillipines.
isn't the piracy rate in Asia like 90%?Quote:
piracy is quite common here in the phillipines.
Yes they would pay people. But I guess that you would have to go to court and testify and they probably have to win for them to pay you. And I would be that they wouldn't bother about small users if you snitched these to them.
The BSA is actually the organization that you report software piracy to. I have never heard of anybody getting paid to snitch. Usually it works out that a disgruntled employee wants to get back at their employer so they put in the call to the BSA. The charge per pirated license is something like 50k. I have heard of companies getting hit with 1mil+ fines.
Hey guys,
I have this private deal with Mr Gates.....................as long as I keep paying him for the software, he won't tell anyone.
So I get to keep my street cred?
:D
Good weekend folks
..muhaha...
what bsa is looking for are companies using a single user license as a server version
to make 500 clients working with it.
if you was fired and your boss is doing so^^ ,hrhrhr, you now can kick his ass.
i wouldn't do, but it's up to you.
He is very either very honest or looking for some IT payback. If an IT manager is smart he will enforce software licensing. After all, I would hate to lose a high paying job because someone found out a main database server was running withoug a license????
To discredit onces reputation and career over something so trivial is foolish, especially when Linux is a good alternative. It's true that keeping up is close to impossible but due diligence could be worth it's weight in court. Assuming anyone will ever end up there.
All you want to know about MS policies.... from the source:
http://www.microsoft.com/piracy/default.asp
I read in the book "Secrets and Lies" a while back that in some places in Asia it's as high as 98%!!! I forget specifically which country, but it was some insane amount.Quote:
Interesting?
I look at it as it costs the same to buy a Microsoft OS, as it does for my wife and I to go to two football matches (good seats..she deserves it :) ).
Now, with the football matches, I only get to bitch at the team twice?............with MS software I can do it every day of my life, at whatever time I choose, or more like it chooses? :D In terms of value for money....I guess Mr Gates wins?
Just a silly thought for the week-end folks
he he, unless of course you license a 4 way SQL server for 2000 clients, then a Domain Controller for 1000 clients then an Exchange Server for 3000 clients, then MS Advanced Server with 2 processors and 400 clients....etc. That is the real motivation to "borrow" software. Hell you could buy into season tickets for those prices. And a new car, and maybe a house. :cool:Quote:
I look at it as it costs the same to buy a Microsoft OS, as it does for my wife and I to go to two football matches (good seats..she deserves it ).
i'm not going to report companies.. i just want to report some people selling microsoft's softwares for their own profit..
Well, the BSA (Business Software Alliance) is the place to go. However, you want to be very sure of what you report. They will want some evidence (eyewitness, copies) or some reasonable expectation that they will find illegal software.
http://www.bsa.org/
BTW, they do more than go after companies that use single-user licenses. I know that the will periodically audit, say, a college for licensing compliance. Especially if that college has had problems in the past.
i wouldn't f*** for Microsoft.
"Secrets and Lies" is garbage with MANY verifiable falsehoods and content altering inaccuracies. I guess they figured this was ok since the book is titled as lies.Quote:
Originally posted here by alphabetarian
I read in the book "Secrets and Lies" a while back that in some places in Asia it's as high as 98%!!! I forget specifically which country, but it was some insane amount.
Additionally, many countries do not recognize US copyrights, so technically it isn't piracy there.
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i find it rather hypocritical if not ironic that m$ carries on about piracy when i walked into a store today to see a big sign promoting windows xp to download music save it, edit it, burn it.
What the?