Tried reporting stuff like that to the copyright holders twice (though not the MPAA, RIAA, or BSA).
First time was when a spammer kept flooding the email accounts here for several weeks in a row with offers to sell obviously pirated copies of Microsoft software. Tried reporting it to Microsoft. Got a response that said that they didn't accept such reports by email and gave me some elaborate (and time-consuming) procedure for making such a report. I decided they obviously don't care about that sort of thing and haven't bothered them since.
Second time was when a friend bought a "Brand New Unregistered" copy of Adobe Photoshop off Ebay. Turns out that the seller was making a business of burning CDRs, and printing the CD labels and jewel case inserts on an inkjet printer. Decent quality forgeries, but you could tell as soon as you had it in your hand: the perforated edges on the jewel case inserts and the CDRs with stick-on labels is a giveaway. Tried reporting it to Adobe, never got any response. Since I wasn't the buyer, I couldn't leave feedback about it myself. As far as I know, the seller just kept on selling photoshop and other "brand new" software.
But I can understand why companies wouldn't care about stuff like that. It's not like that kind of commercial piracy is worth bothering with when there are 12-year-olds who once pulled a copy of a song off a peer-to-peer network still at large and posing a threat to society.
First time was when a spammer kept flooding the email accounts here for several weeks in a row with offers to sell obviously pirated copies of Microsoft software. Tried reporting it to Microsoft. Got a response that said that they didn't accept such reports by email and gave me some elaborate (and time-consuming) procedure for making such a report. I decided they obviously don't care about that sort of thing and haven't bothered them since.
Second time was when a friend bought a "Brand New Unregistered" copy of Adobe Photoshop off Ebay. Turns out that the seller was making a business of burning CDRs, and printing the CD labels and jewel case inserts on an inkjet printer. Decent quality forgeries, but you could tell as soon as you had it in your hand: the perforated edges on the jewel case inserts and the CDRs with stick-on labels is a giveaway. Tried reporting it to Adobe, never got any response. Since I wasn't the buyer, I couldn't leave feedback about it myself. As far as I know, the seller just kept on selling photoshop and other "brand new" software.
But I can understand why companies wouldn't care about stuff like that. It's not like that kind of commercial piracy is worth bothering with when there are 12-year-olds who once pulled a copy of a song off a peer-to-peer network still at large and posing a threat to society.
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