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Anti Piracy: How You’ll Get Caught in The Software Piracy Audit Scam! Print E-mail
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One of the key reasons we hear so much about software piracy or music piracy is that virtually any use an average person or company makes of these copyright protected products can be easily interpreted as illegal.

In reality, the vast majority of so-called software piracy events are nothing more than license violations-coupled with lousy record keeping business processes. Of equal importance is that the so-called anti-piracy industry, in reality, invests significantly more time and effort in copyright enforcement than in violations prevention (We’ll discuss this side of the scam in another Briefing).

Our First Bottom Line: There is an enormous and highly lucrative global copyright enforcement industry that feeds on consumer lethargy and it will continue to feed on our individual bottom lines until we all wake up and take action.
Software piracy is--to a very real extent--in the eyes of the beholder. Unfortunately the most powerful beholders have arranged it so that the legal definitions of piracy are so conveniently cloudy virtually anyone--right down to an 11-year old child (and younger) can violate federal and global copyright laws.

Read on for some serious details on how you set yourself up for that punitive copyright violation audit...

 
Anti Piracy: Software Enforcement Audits Get More Lucrative Every Day! Print E-mail
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In September, 2007, the Business Software Alliance (BSA) announced a record anti piracy settlement of over $3,467,000. The claim involved an undisclosed international media company we’ll call Target IMC. Realistically, the underlying costs of this single punitive copyright compliance audit event—the costs you never see published—easily exceeded $10M-$15M. Read on to discover how your company can be exposed to this type of software piracy audit. More importantly, we also discuss how Target IMC could have prevented, or at very least minimized, the financial impact of their ineffective software asset management techniques.

Do you honestly think that the software police and copyright cops aren't aggressively hunting your company for software piracy, license non compliance, and copyright infringement violations? Think again...  Read on.
 

 

 
Music Royalties are too High? Print E-mail
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What?  The miniscule royalties that actually end up in the hands of creative music artists are too high for the music industry players to pay?  Now the RIAA is whining that they have to pay too much in royalties to the artists and companies that actually create the products that they distribute.  Do they actually think we’ll fall for this (ill-)logic?  It’s little wonder people tend to ignore all the big-money anti piracy propaganda flooding the media.

 
Q&A - Should I contact the copyright holder about software piracy problems? Print E-mail
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A. Nice question! Scary, but very nice! The short answer - according to over 95% of the technology asset managers we have polled on three continents:

"Not a single one of them was willing to trust the copyright holder to help them straighten out suspected software piracy or copyright violations."

There are plenty of completely valid reasons for this perspective. The most common answer we have found is that, very frequently, an incorrectly drafted contact about licensing issues can easily bring down the software piracy audit teams. The Network provides you with vendor-neutral advice and knowledge necessary to steer clear of the software piracy danger zones.

Would you like a more complete discussion?  We started this process of free answers to your questions. As long as you keep asking questions, we’ll keep adding to it!

 
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