Software Piracy and the Piracy police

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Nosferatu

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I recently received a couple of pieces of mail and was wondering what you all think.
A quick summary: I have till May 31st to get rid of all pirated software or I run the risk of the Business Software Alliance and Microsoft coming to get me.

I rent a single store to someone and that is all my business does. According to my business license I have I am a home based business. I believe the BSA letter was sent out to all companies within the city, and the Microsoft pamphlet was aimed to my recent business license I acquired from the tax collector ( which is in another city), so I don't think they are targeting me specifically.

Most of my stuff is legit so I am not really too worried about that, but the thought of them coming into my home and turning the place upside down to search for pirated stuff is kind of unsettling. Do they have the right to do this?

I have yet to call them but I will tomorrow morning to see if they can clarify this matter..:frown:

 
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ECN

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BSA can suck my balls, they dont target small people they target big pirates and large cd production houses. Or if you run top ftp sites. they wont spend money and time to get a warrant, becaus they cant get into business. they are just advertising so people will delete their warez because they are scared. if bsa worker reads this, suck my ****
 
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Nosferatu

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Well in the mean time I am making sure there is no questionable stuff in my possesion.
 
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Pretender

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The first one (bsa.tif) looks simply like their SPP (Standard Propaganda Packet) which they put up from time to time in areas to try to convince people to straighten up when Bill Gates' profit margin slips below $10Bil. I haven't finished downloading the second one, but it's probably along the same lines. Calling them to ask questions would probably make them think you have illegal software but are unsure what to do, and if you decide to keep using software illegaly, they might keep you on some list and check back in a few months to see if you legalized, and if not, take action. I'd advise against calling them at this point (I haven't looked at exhibit #2 yet), but [insert voice of boring morality here] if you are running a company, you might want to start using legal software anyway.


(update) the second one finished right before I was going to post, it seems to be more of the same crap. I think you can ignore the whole thing unless you want to legalize, it's up to you
 
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perry

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Call them up tomorrow and say you run a 100% Linux shop and you don't want any of their crap any more.
 
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