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Roseanna Diomede
A company that sells a product expects to be paid for that product. I'm sure if the shoe were on the other foot (i.e. the company's product was being pirated) they would pursue it. It is idiocy to think you can sell product but cheat others out of theirs.
What they use is not your business, for as long as this does not affect you. If your personal working place is 100% legal, they do not ask you to use pirated software, pay you the salary, just work and don't think too much.
If they ask you to use pirated software, you have two options, either agree and be complicit or to reject. If in the latter case you get fired, then you can pursue legal ways to request compensation for lost time, income and other damages.
ADDED: The question of morality of turning the company over is not that easy. The moral varies from culture to culture. In some countries (mostly of western civilization) communicating every act of lawbreaking (even within family/parents/children) to authorities is a normal practice. In other countries this could be considered a highly amoral action with the actor losing his face/respect of others and under circumstances even risking getting revenge (seriously consider it if your action will ultimately ruin their business). I'd personally would consider a neutral position. If they don't ask you personally to use pirated software and they are good to you, respond in kind. If they ask you to use it, you decline and they throw you out, then you can approach them and ask for compensation for the complete period until you find another place. If they don't take seriously, then you can consider whether it is worth the trouble (say, you relocated to another town, rented an appartment and now you're out) or not (you just take one of the other job offers you hopefully had). In any case, the decision is yours.
I would only tattle if they pushed first i.e. they forced me to use their pirated software or face disciplinary action. I personally don't have a problem with software piracy, it's a fact of life in the industry we work in. But for a company to force you to use software they obtained illegally in this day in age, when there are so many viable open source alternatives, is a little bit much.
I worked at a place like this in 2001. We were a small startup hurting for money etc. I brought the fact up to my boss that the SQL and IIS servers were all pirated and that we did not have licenses. Two weeks later I lost my job, no severence nothing. I called my lawyer who in turn called my old boss and his boss and I got a 4 week severence. My lawyer did this as a favor.
There are also cheaper alternatives. I would argue that most PDFS that the average dev needs to generate can be created without adobe, there are cheaper alternatives. So maybe the solution is limiting the amount of available software and paying for it.
I remember a certain, hugely wealthy, company who were a small unheard of business who, stole and pirated their product from its inventor and refused to pay the aforesaid person any monies whatsoever. The courts however decreed that they had indeed stolen the product and were told to cough up $20,000,000, to the original inventor, plus interest and legal costs.
You might argue that its not the same, that you actually do pay for a tangible product when you buy photoshop. Thats an illusion, adobe has made something and you pay for the opportunity to download/install it.
The Trojan is a variation of the iServices Trojan malware, discovered last week, which stormed across users' Macs via pirated versions of Apple's productivity suite iWorks '09. As of Jan. 22, at least 20,000 users were believed infected by the malware, known as OSX.Trojan.iServices.A, according to the security advisory.
The new Mac Trojan variant OSX.Trojan.iSerices.B, detected last Thursday, is found in the crack application bundled with copies of Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Mac. While the actual Adobe Photoshop installer is bug-free, the Trojan embeds itself into a crack application that serializes the program, Intego said. After downloading the pirated Photoshop, the crack application extracts an executable from its data, then installs a backdoor in a file directory, which is not deleted when the computer reboots. If the user runs the crack application again, the Trojan creates another executable with a different name, making the malware more difficult to trace and safely remove.
Intego warned in its advisory that users should avoid downloading cracking software available from sites that distribute pirated software, while also recommending that users never download software from unsolicited links or questionable Web sites.
Adobe is a software company that is well-known for its creative software products like Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, and others. Pirated software is an unauthorized copy of licensed software that is sold, distributed, or used illegally without paying the required fees or license costs. Adobe has a strict policy against piracy and has implemented measures to detect pirated software.
Many People who started with Pirated software went legit when they became Stable. Curb Piracy Hard Handedly and people may go some other way. But the most pirate software I have seen is Adobe. Avid Presence in the Pirated market is very negligible. One who can Install a Pirated Avid in an underspecked Workstation and make it run smoothly must be an expart. I think it will be hard to find a profit making and professional organisation using pirated Avid Software where as it will not be hard to find a Pirated Adobe. Pirating Avid is one thing and mastering is another thing.
Although Lightroom isn't quite as popular as Photoshop with the general public (with only 58% of the voters), the users of Lightroom are just as willing to pirate the software. I assumed that Lightroom would be less pirated because it's newer software and because the price is slightly lower than that of Photoshop. I assumed wrong. Then again, if you're going to pirate a copy of Photoshop, why not Lightroom too?
What do you guys think? Are the results surprising? Should Adobe care about this? I'm sure they're aware of Photoshop and Lightroom being pirated, but I wonder what their position is on the topic.
There are dozens of phony Adobe products all over the eBay. Some CS4 Ex
tended pirated copies are going for less than $200.00 and, these counterfeits are coming in from Southern Europe but, most of these scam-diggers are straight from the boats sailing from China. A belligerent act of war in my book!
LOL adobe knows that there software is pirated and is ok with that . They even mentioned it in press conference. This is the reason behind it. A million people pirate it in the industry and become great at the software. Of those million a percentage gets jobs in the field requiring the use of an editing software. Employer buys photoshop instead of another software because the new employees are already comfortable with it. ya see Photoshop was always meant as a pro tool for professionals and companies so everyone pirating the software is just seen as training the companies dont have to pay for and a way of photoshop taking top billing as the editing software of choice.
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court has awarded Rs 30 lakh damages to Microsoft Corporation, Adobe Systems and Quest Software while restraining a company based in the national capital from using or distributing their pirated and unlicensed software.
The high court's order came on a suit filed by Microsoft Corporation, Adobe Systems and Quest Software against a firm named 'Chetu' which provided IT services and solutions to its clients, and related parties, after they came to know that the company was using their unlicensed/pirated software programs on its computers.
The high court restrained the defendants, their principal officers, directors, agents, franchisees, servants, and all others acting for and on their behalf are restrained from directly or indirectly using for any kind of computer related activities or otherwise, pirated/counterfeit/unlicensed softwares of the Plaintiffs.
It is unclear how Adobe discovered its software was allegedly being wrongly used by Forever 21, but in recent years it has actively encouraged people to turn in employers who are using pirated software.
Only after technicians went online to research bug fixes did officials learn of the global Flash shutdown, news of which seemingly didn't penetrate the insular Chinese internet. A translation of the Github timeline suggests restoring software backups temporarily restored service around noon, though outages returned again at around 2:00 p.m., and later on in the evening. CR Shenyang's response team then reportedly began exploring a reversion to older software systems, its options apparently consisting of an unspecified Microsoft-based setup, or an archived, pirated version of Flash without the "time bomb" code. Technicians settled on the latter, and around 1:00 a.m. on the 13th, CR Shenyang successfully brought one of its stations fully online. By 2:30 a.m., all but one route was back in service and the railroad's Y2K21 nightmare behind it.
Adobe surely won't be happy to hear its abandonware will shamble on in pirated form, though it'd have the darnedest time taking legal action against CR Shenyang. Copyright laws in China, as Captain Barbossa would say it, are treated more like what you'd call guidelines than actual rules.
The new Trojan horse, OSX.Trojan.iServices.B, is found in pirated software distributed via BitTorrent trackers and other sites containing links to pirated software, just like the previous version.
WHAT TO DO: If you're a Mac user, do not download Photoshop CS4 installers from sites offering pirated software. According to Intego, nearly 5,000 people on one BitTorrent site have downloaded this installer since 6am EST.
I do believe I remember a friend of mine who did some digital media degree at Bradford uni recount of a time when they had a Macromedia representative. He asked for a show of hands on how many people had pirated software, and continued saying that that was fine, as they were the people who would be making purchasing decisions for businesses in a few years.
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