Software Piracy related question

medicnick83

medicnick83

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I have this friend, she is not the brightest spark in the pack.

Anyways, I go visit her and she's got the Office 2003 installed on her machine.

Long story short, she took her laptop in to have the hard drive upgraded, the guy who did it, did something to bugger up her old office, as a 'freebie' he loaded the full Office 2003 package.

She's so happy, but when I mentioned to her that she needs the software licence, she goes ... "huh what?"

It was illegally loaded on her 'work' laptop.

Now the stupid question that I have to ask - let's say someone (from wherever - say, SAFACT) was to audit her laptop or whatever and it's found to have a illegal copy of office on, how much is the company looking at paying?

She thinks it's all a big joke but I'm trying to explain to her the importance of not using illegal stuff on your OFFICE / WORK laptop.

Home PC is another story...
 
I suppose the work could get in trouble, and in turn make her in trouble.
 
Pooky said:
I suppose the work could get in trouble, and in turn make her in trouble.
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From what I've been told, my friend is not liable - the IT company in CPT that did this - is, but I know what will happen and from my limited dealings with the guy in question, he will lie and such and deny everything!

The company however will suffer.
 
Why don't you seperate yourself from the situation?

Besides, I'm sure it's highly unlikely that anything will happen.
 
Pooky said:
Why don't you seperate yourself from the situation?

Besides, I'm sure it's highly unlikely that anything will happen.
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I have - she doesn't care - I do care because I don't want anything to happen to her (because of this)

So I just wanted to ask.
 
1x illegal loaded costed pc corporation in brooklyn 10K fine...

[-]she[/-] You are also liable if the original office don't have a license- where are the original keys ?; if you don't report the place as illegal loaders then it might be seen as illegal hard drive loading (or what ever the term is) and you can be held to pay when some one comes around to check the license.

safact / ms does soft target business here and there to see if they are legal; it is however not at the door2door stage yet

but as with this,
there are the variable of personal and sensitive data so no-one can really just walk in and ask for you stuff, a warrant will be needed first if it comes down to that.
 
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You did your part, she has been warned.

I load OpenOffice for people, used to do tech support a short while ago and got a lot of people asking me to load Office. I don't do it.
 
GDI does the company own the laptop? did they pay for it or are they still paying for it?

Your being very paranoid i suspect.
 
I like girls wearing pink panties with black lace linnings..but thats beside the point......
concerning this situation the guy who installed it is the baddy, seeing that she is oblivious
to it all he is to blame.....but if you want to do her (and the IT guy, should bad comes to worse) then upgrade her to OO3
 
Pooky said:
Why don't you seperate yourself from the situation?

Besides, I'm sure it's highly unlikely that anything will happen.
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Because he's concerned, wants to help and it's always better to be safe than sorry. :D

She might be hot too!

EDIT: Sorry, was just kidding about bring up the hot part. :rolleyes:
 
<moLe> said:
I like girls wearing pink panties with black lace linnings..but thats beside the point......
concerning this situation the guy who installed it is the baddy, seeing that she is oblivious
to it all he is to blame.....but if you want to do her (and the IT guy, should bad comes to worse) then upgrade her to OO3
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So OO3 is what he needs to err... do her?
 
Necuno said:
safact / ms does soft target business here and there to see if they are legal; it is however not at the door2door stage yet
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They would need a magistrate's warrant to look on a laptop. 1. The laptop contains personal info. 2. Laptop if used for business, may contain privileged info. They would have to know you're running M$ OFFICE and you could
deny it, hence no reason to show them anything like a product CD.
 
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