Anti Piracy Group Siphons $92K Out of Colorado Economy
The Business Technology Consumer Network
could easily have helped this company avoid, or at the least minimize,
the impact of this punitive audit. Nothing to buy - no new software or
hardware - no new consultants to hire. All the company management had to do to minimize this event would have been to utilize the software piracy audit entries on this site. Just a simple application of
POCS:
Plain Old Common Sense...
Violating software licenses--whether it's an innocent mistake, or a full blown copyright piracy initiative--can easily cost even a small American company an entire year's profit. The sad reality in a majority of these license violation confrontations, is that the targeted enterprise could have either completely eliminated--or minimized--the financial impact by implementing a very simple, cost effective corporate software asset management process.
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.
In this release a Colorado door corporation has been involved in a so-called software piracy audit--to the tune of $92,000 in software license non compliance fines and an estimated $270,000 in associated hidden audit costs.
Software Anti Piracy Caution: There is rarely such a thing as
a SINGLE software license violation audit. Any enterprise that is
confronted for non compliance can expect follow-up audits. 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...
