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Yeah, back to this again

Question for everyone ... Does the SPA (or other similar org) care about the
real crooks pirating software?! I ask because it seems they only care to go
out and audit people using (or in most cases not using) pirated software.
They seem to only care about mere possession and much less about people
selling the stuff. I believe it is clear that the sale of pirated software
is the biggest problem and the problem which actually causes loss of revenue
to the software development companies. More importantly, it enables
"competing" CS business to severely undercut those that do not sell pirated
software. However, all I ever hear or read about is companies and
individuals being audited for what they may or may not have. How does this
do any of us any good?! Any other insight on this? TIA

Good point. However, the point of my message is that the methods and
"targets" of the SPA seem to be misdirected. As far as I know, they could
care less if you go out and sell 100 bootleg copies of XP. However, if you
happen to use one of them on your own machine ... they'll be ready to bust
ya. Where do they come up with this strategy?! At any rate, it's unfair and
ineffective.
"Navin R. Johnson" <> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 12:43:02 -0400, "techshare" <>
> wrote:
>
> >Yeah, back to this again
> >
> >Question for everyone ... Does the SPA (or other similar org) care about
the
> >real crooks pirating software?! I ask because it seems they only care to
go
> >out and audit people using (or in most cases not using) pirated software.
> >They seem to only care about mere possession and much less about people
> >selling the stuff. I believe it is clear that the sale of pirated
software
> >is the biggest problem and the problem which actually causes loss of
revenue
> >to the software development companies. More importantly, it enables
> >"competing" CS business to severely undercut those that do not sell
pirated
> >software. However, all I ever hear or read about is companies and
> >individuals being audited for what they may or may not have. How does
this
> >do any of us any good?! Any other insight on this? TIA
> >
>
> It's much easier and less costly for them to go after the 'Mom & Pop'
> operations and individuals. Big companies who are involved in the sale
> of pirated software also have big lawyers. Just my 2-cents.
>
> NRJ