HK police arrests users of pirated software

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Posted on	07/08/01 20:47
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HK police arrests users of pirated software

Henry used our newssubmit to tell us:

That there have been some busts in Hong-Kong related to software piracy:

[...] In one case, the proprietor of an unidentified company was arrested and four hard disks were confiscated. In the other case, the three employees who were using the pirated software at the time of the raid were arrested and seven hard disks were seized. Both companies had purchased pirated copies of expensive design software. The department may make additional arrests and seizures in both cases depending on the results of further investigations, Ho said. Any IS staff who knowingly installed the illegal software could be arrested, he said.

Nothing major...all back to sleep

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Posted by Nuke001 on Tuesday 07 August 2001 22:05

Errrrr... are we talking about the same country? I just went there and errr they were selling PC OS Software on the streets openly. :4 Ironic

Posted by on Wednesday 08 August 2001 01:14

Well, a company using pirated software is considered more of an offence than just individual home users using the software. Most home users don't make thousands/millions of dollars on a project they work on using whichever companies software. That'd be why company licenses always cost so much.

Posted by jimmytim on Wednesday 08 August 2001 06:17

I don't own a company, so I don't have to pay for using pirate software right?
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Posted by Euphoria on Wednesday 08 August 2001 09:49

zZzZzZz - euh? okay! - zZzZzZz

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