> I know I speak for all software developers who live and breath code so you can create.
> Jeff
Jeff, no, you don't. Please do not speak on my account.
As always, things are way more complicated than they seem.
(And in the rare case one is not, nature will find a way. I'm nature.)
I concider myself a hacker. (No, a hacker is not someone who deals in warez and is full of 'stuff should be free' ideas.)
A few reminders:
Piracy is used (intentionally or not) as a marketing strategy.
(WordPerfect is a good example.)
Piracy by end users has (afaik) little to no impact on my business.
However, the big guns can copy ideas from small companies without any problem, legal or not.
For the 'no remorse on reporting people', well, this is a very huge shady area.
I think it goes without saying that i'm in the other camp.
Laws and IT are a funny mix. Laws (and legal knowledge) seem to be at least 10 years behind,
that's an eternety in the digital world.
have a look at this to see what can go horribly wrong:
http://www.videotoolshed.com//images/movies/hilbrand.webm
(don't comment on the quality, this is war zone TV,
part of a payback from me to the open source community)
And now the discussion has become political, and some of the ideas presented by the hackers community are close to religious...
Bouke
VideoToolShed
van Oldenbarneveltstraat 33
6512 AS NIJMEGEN, the Netherlands
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----- Original Message -----
From: Jeff Krebs
To: ds-list ; Avid L2 ; After Effects Mail List
Sent: Friday, August 23, 2013 1:29 PM
Subject: [Avid-L2] Please report Software Piracy
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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