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Eliminating the Software Piracy Smoke & Mirrors! |
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Software piracy! Copyright violation! License non compliance! Punitive audit action! Alan Plastow explains how your business can stop being hammered by tech suppliers and their ever-expanding revenue streams. Let’s put the consumer brakes on the apparent mantra of many of the businesses that create products protected by copyright law. It’s almost as if they’re constantly ordering consumers to…
“Pay me now; pay me later; pay me again; pay me more; pay my friends—pay, pay, pay!”
Let Confusion Reign…
To ensure that business technology consumers remain completely mystified, the entire copyright enforcement industry has cultivated one gigantic accumulation of smoke and mirrors. At the core of all the mess is the incredibly complex web of contracts, licenses, and agreements that govern our use of their products. Opposing this mess, and further complicating our lives, are the even more confusing copyright laws, acts, and legislation at the regional, national, and international levels—a majority of which have been designed either by the copyrighted products industry players or by their nicely reimbursed lobbyists.
Shaky Foundations…
Many of the existing copyright laws are also most frequently based on—shall we suggest slightly skewed?—statistical evidence accumulated by the same copyright holders who stand to profit the most from consumer licensing errors. And, finally, just to keep our lives interesting—the definitions of piracy and copyright violation have quietly slipped into an obscuring fog of incomprehensible legalese.
“As a consumer of business technologies, if you think you are going to come out on top of this ship-wreck, you might want to rethink your position and base it more on solid reality than clouded assumptions.”
When You Play—You WILL Have to Pay!
When you violate copyright, you will discover another entire world of constantly shifting fines, penalties, costs, and terminology. While, in America, the core copyright law is governed by Titles 17 and 18 of the United States Code, your copyright violations could easily be framed in such a manner that they will qualify you under any one of more than a dozen laws—in addition to U.S. Code. This is the world in which you will find yourself, wandering aimlessly with your white litigation cane in hand—tapping, gently tapping...
Are you ready to become thoroughly confused?
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