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Microsoft through the site with vacancies condemned Russian users of pirated Windows

Russian company using pirated versions of Windows and Office, figured out through the site with vacancies, according to the resource E1. The incident took place in Yekaterinburg.

Interesting way of searching for companies that illegally use software that uses Microsoft. Microsoft attorneys seek out violators, studying vacancy. So they managed to calculate a company from Ekaterinburg.

“On the company’s website contains information on careers Manager to work with design companies, sales Manager and assistant sales Manager. The requirements for bidders, specified on knowledge of MS Office”, – is spoken in the materials of the case.

This license to use the software at the Ekaterinburg firm was not. And Microsoft has addressed in arbitration court of the Sverdlovsk region, which approved the requirement of inspection of computers.

In the end it turned out that they had installed a pirated version of Windows XP and Microsoft Office. Damage was estimated at 100 000. During the proceedings, the defendant tried to rest on the fact that areas where there were computers that do not belong to him, but the court this argument to consider not became.
In the end, Microsoft won the trial.

The publication notes that the American Corporation is actively fighting against pirates in Russia, looking for them on sites with vacancies. Over the last six months in Sverdlovsk courts was filed five similar lawsuits.

A similar scheme, as it was previously reported MacDigger, used by other companies. To private computer masters persistently seek help from private customers asking for is illegal to install them for a modest fee expensive, you first need to download from a pirate site. Agreed to this geek is an illegal version of the program on the Internet, comes to the client and installs it with his stick, then takes the money for the work. Then he was detained by the police. Much love from the operatives uses Autodesk Alias Automotive for automotive design. It costs about 40 thousand dollars.

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Technology with decoy customers FOR long time put on stream – lawyers seem to recall that the first such case under article 146 of the criminal code (“Violation of copyright and related rights”) in the courts appeared back in 2007 and now account for them in hundreds.

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