And this also goes for any digital media:
books, training videos, movies, television . . . .
There are real people on the other end of those things
who are affected when people pirate.
Happy Friday all,
B
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Benjamin Hershleder
Book: http://tinyurl.com/avidmc-book
Site: http://ContactBen.com
On Aug 23, 2013, at 4:29 AM, Jeff Krebs wrote:
> Hello,
> While I realize that in 2013 software piracy (cracking if you will) is
> impossible to control, you can certainly do your part by:
>
> - purchasing your software only from a known software sources (resellers
> or software developers)
> - report software piracy to the developers or software compliancy
> organizations
>
> Piracy hurts all developers large and small (we happen to be small) and are
> continually finding even the larger studios, post facilities and
> broadcasters are stealing software.
> It also hurts the small shops and independent film makers as you now have
> to compete with the monolith facilities that are not paying for software.
> It's certainly more prevalent in some countries over others, and as unusual
> as it sounds, the larger organizations with IT departments, corporate
> infrastructures are some of the worst culprits.
> Our current known list is small with slightly more than 800 investigations
> on-going.
>
> Of course - dealing with individual 'company's" in specific countries who
> produce a mass amount of VFX content that:
>
> - use students as free labor
> - *steal software and claim it's part of their culture*
> - when caught immediately shut the company down
> - firing the students for a new crop that arrive and are used as free
> labor
> - setting up "bull sh*t" educational facilities that are actually
> production facilities attempting to buy student licenses
>
> Most of all compete and/or are off-shoots with US, Canadian and European
> companies.
> VFX solidarity did not really touch on the subject of piracy probably
> because they don't look at the VFX industry and include software piracy as
> part of their issue.
> Well, it's very significant. As we work with a compliancy firm whose sole
> mandate is to work with software development firms to bring companies large
> and small to justice.
>
> We have many competitors and partners in the software industry. While we
> compete, outside of work we are friendly and in complete agreement with the
> piracy issues that we face today.
> If I was able to legally publicly shame the corporations, large production
> companies and major broadcasters that have been caught, the familiar names
> would shock you (or maybe not)
> I've feel no remorse or guilt in reporting our own customers who I've
> witnessed cracking our competitors software.
>
> Do the same... Please and Thank You.
>
> I know I speak for all software developers who live and breath code so you
> can create.
> Jeff
>
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