Do companies actually get caught if they use pirated software?

Do companies actually get caught if they use pirated software?

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yes

here in germany we have so called "license audits", where some guy comes to your company and checks if you are running pirated software.

I don't care fuck 'em.
capitalism and the free market was a mistake

How good skills has does himself?

Yes, in fact, the two types of piracy listed are basically the only two the FBI give a fuck about.

they exist in every country, they usually have 1-2 lawyers, 1-2 IT dropouts and security.
they enter some company's "server" room. they check licenses and s/w on most machines and then they fuck you right in the pussy for pirating.

idk what you mean, i just read it online.
i am long term unemployed without any IT skill desu, sorry

Yes. Professional softwares are so expensive because they only aim at companies and let your avarage piratefags use it for free.

The company I work for was actually caught illegally using software.
We had a "production" license but not a "development" license.
Apparently the difference was a "production" license lets you run the software; the "development" license lets you test the software before you deploy it.
So one of our developers called their help desk about an issue with one of their API functions, they found out we didn't have the development license, sued us and won.
The memo that got sent to everyone in the company said it was to the tune of about $6 million.
Now corporate IT constantly harasses people about installing software and all software has to be approved by IT and legal departments.

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Even in Brazil Microsoft will pay a visit to your medium+ sized company, to confirm you're legit. Often by anonymous tips but they have a lot of telemetry. I don't remember exactly how it works since obviously they can't just enter the location uninvited. They have a shitload of telemetry tied to IPs so that sure helps.

COMRADE STALIN SALUTES YOU!

Seriously, go jump off a bridge.

what software?

this is what you get with nonfree software

get fucked

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intellectual property is government intervention to stop natural market forces from decreasing the value of labor that results in information rather than commodities
in other words, socialism

the free market is the one that doesn't care

The police in my country.

you have zero to none idea about what "free market" means.

>pay to use software
>hmmm... let me just see if it works right before deploying it
>some jews come crawling up your ass for six million peanuts
BURN IT ALL

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yeah a functional company that adapts it's policies and continues business, rather than a neet in their garage on a $100 used thinkpad

>justifying getting cucked 6 millions out of yoir pocket

That's bullshit.

6 gorillion

>Do companies actually get caught if they use pirated software?
In Europe we have auditors that check for that (and a bunch of other stuff). Individuals can do whatever the hell they want at home, but companies must have licensed products

Oh wow $6 million. That's like the cost of employing 28 whole programmers for a year. Maybe next time they will take license compliance seriously.

intellectual property would exist with or without the governments help in a free market. it's a natural extension of physical property rights.

yes, they're especially targeted for it because software companies can sue them for damages

$6million they can afford because they create value instead of using garbage free software lmao

No
Commodities are property, information is not.
The "value" of information does not obey the same economic and underling socialogical principles used to derive the value of commodities.
Pretending two mechanically different entities are interchangeable components of trade is an extremely stupid idea.

Without IP you have to go back to some primitive form of trade, like back to our hunting and gathering days. IP is emergent from civilization. In the same way it is fraudulent to use another person's name it is fraudulent to user another person's IP against their wishes.

found the free thinking individuals

>Do companies actually get caught if they use pirated software?

Your question is a catch 22 OP.
If we know about it clearly they got caught.

What you mean to say is are they punished when they are caught.

Unless they are police and with a court order they are not getting near my servers I can tell you that much.

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Not that often, but actually getting caught is a disaster so why risk it.

>person's IP
I actually have no problem with this. I do have a problem that IPs can be owned by a corporate entity, and kept for up to 120 years now.

LOL WUT? How would you enforce IP without a government creating it in a state-ful society?

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>4th grade English skills
Yike

Herp derp lefty tard doesn't even know what a free market is.

It's ironic to say, but we've never had a true free market. We've had hybrid economies where the state intervenes all over the place. Never once have we had a true free market, free of government coercion and interventionism.

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Install Gentoo

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We did, in the tribal stages of humanity where your ancestor traded some clay pots for a sheep or someshit.
There's an excellent reason we moved away from it, because that system stopped fulfilling society's needs.

>Subtle too stupid to understand that this system wasn't voluntarily moved away from.

As power-grabbing sociopaths wanted more control over larger and larger communities and societies throughout time, they also quickly understood the use of money and how controlling it meant controlling people.

No, we didn't magically move away from it because it was bad. We moved away because tyrants wanted more power. Today, we have new technologies that can replace fiat and centralized control of money that can free us to run entirely free economies now.

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Oh nvm I was talking to a crypto cultist.

Yeah, no. Nice try moving the goalpost, fag. I'm not a crypto-cultist. I don't even use crypto. However, the technology and infrastructure is in place to create grey markets and economies now. Hell, the dark web already facilitates that very thing, albeit for illegal goods and services.

Anyway, pretend you've won some argument because you don't think technology works or something, retard.

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