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software piracy?

  • 24-08-2010 4:26pm
    #1
    Denalihighway
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,077 ✭✭✭Denalihighway


    as a matter of interest, who enforces production software piracy?

    If you get snared with cracked software (assuming we're talking about a commercial entity, taking money for producing money), is it the company who made the software product that can sue you or a regulatory body or what?


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  • #2
    tricky D
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,700 ✭✭✭tricky D


    Federation Against Software Theft

    Some info: http://www.trinity-solutions.ie/it_policy.asp(half way down) and Google around for more.


  • #3
    Quiggers
    Closed Accounts Posts: 282 ✭✭Quiggers


    Waves set up a company that visits studios to check that they have licences for waves products it they are using them.


  • #4
    ebaysellerrob
    Closed Accounts Posts: 100 ✭✭ebaysellerrob


    if you sell cracked plugins the fraud squad........funny these questions are normally always a sign of a guilty student asking a question...I mean what person who is not going near cracked software would even bothering asking


  • #5
    DOC09UNAM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,305 ✭✭✭DOC09UNAM


    ebaysellerrob wrote: »
    if you sell cracked plugins the fraud squad........funny these questions are normally always a sign of a guilty student asking a question...I mean what person who is not going near cracked software would even bothering asking
    Someone who has had there software stolen and sold?


  • #6
    ebaysellerrob
    Closed Accounts Posts: 100 ✭✭ebaysellerrob


    no some one that has downloaded cracked software and tried selling it.There has been a few cases of people trying t get away with it on adverts this year


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  • #7
    MilanPan!c
    Site Banned Posts: 4,415 ✭✭✭MilanPan!c


    ebaysellerrob wrote: »
    no some one that has downloaded cracked software and tried selling it.There has been a few cases of people trying t get away with it on adverts this year

    In London, people used to sell DVDs of cracked software outside a few of the markets.

    Blew my mind.


  • #8
    Denalihighway
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,077 ✭✭✭Denalihighway


    ebaysellerrob wrote: »
    if you sell cracked plugins the fraud squad........funny these questions are normally always a sign of a guilty student asking a question...I mean what person who is not going near cracked software would even bothering asking

    to satisfy your curiosity...you're way off.

    and anyway, if someone was committing a crime, I'm not sure posting a thread on a public forum relating to that crime would be very clever.

    anyways, like I said, you're way off.

    and the question related to people using cracked software (specifically DAWs), not selling it.

    EDIT: and for further clarification, I don't, nor do I have any intention of owning a cracked DAW.

    - just in case someone else wants to put 2 + 2 together and come up with me, on Moore St, with a cart full of cracked Protools...


  • #9
    GTE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,919 ✭✭✭GTE


    ebaysellerrob wrote: »
    funny these questions are normally always a sign of a guilty student asking a question...I mean what person who is not going near cracked software would even bothering asking

    Curiosity for one. Threads, conversations and articles about cracked software are relatively common. The recent Waves plug in case is a ground breaking one as well so it perfectly fine to ask who actually regulates this side of the industry.


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