The Business Technology Consumer Network
could easily have helped these companies avoid or, at the least, minimize
the impact of these punitive audits. Nothing to buy - no new software or
hardware - no new consultants to hire. All company management had
to do to minimize these events would have been to utilize the software
piracy entries on this site. Just a simple application of
POCS:
Plain Old Common Sense...
Software Piracy Audits (Such as those listed below) are incredibly costly--in cold hard cash; in lost productivity; and in damage to both your reputation and the corporate reputation. The software audit results listed here represent only the very tip of this hidden iceberg. In each settlement, the amount announced as the fine does not include the true cost or business impact of the event. Those actual costs have been estimated to come in as 3 to 6 times the published amount.
Software piracy audits are constantly referred to as educational events--used by the collective enforcement industry to "educate" the public and business entities. If that is the case, we have to ask why the vast majority of settlements are never made public--even in the generic format we use here. How can concealing the majority of audits serve as an honest process of educating the business technology consumer of the importance of software license compliance assurance?
Software Anti Piracy Caution:
There is rarely such a thing as a SINGLE software license violation
audit. Any enterprise confronted for piracy or non compliance can
expect follow-up audits at anytime for as long as five years. These
follow-up audits may be conducted by the same enforcement as the
original audit, OR an entirely new range of copyright enforcement
audits may be initiated by additional copyright holders and their
friends. Frequently, we see BOTH...
With these facts in mind, here is our list of software piracy targets--and a very clear statement that each and every one of these companies could have reduced the financial impact of these events by as much as 90% if the had simply read and acted upon the free information contained on this web site.
If you are interested in building a
serious wall of due diligence between you, your company, even your
kids and the predatory copyright audit enforcement groups, read up on
some of the strategies & tactics HERE.
