PHILIPPINE police raided a Japanese firm contracted to build the Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway last week after local authorities received a tip that it was using unlicensed software. Led by a team from the Philippine National Police Criminal Investigation and Detection Group Anti-Fraud and Commercial Crime Division, local authorities raided the Hazama Corp. offices inside the former Clark Air Base...Judge Antonio M. Eugenio Jr. issued the search warrant, which resulted in the seizure of 74 sets of desktop computers loaded with allegedly pirated Microsoft products and 48 PCs with allegedly unlicensed Autodesk software. Police Senior Superintendent...Noel delos Reyes said in a statement that the raid "will have a negative effect on Hazama's operations considering that only six computers were not confiscated by us from their offices...Considering the amount of the funding for the project, however, I don't see any reason why Hazama's management allowed the use of pirated software in the first place. Thus, any delays that will be experienced by the project should be blamed on the Japanese officers of the firm. If the project was in Japan, I don't think they would have used pirated software," the police official added.
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by Mulboyne » Thu Mar 09, 2006 5:51 pm
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[/floatl]INQ7: Japanese contractor found using unlicensed software
PHILIPPINE police raided a Japanese firm contracted to build the Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway last week after local authorities received a tip that it was using unlicensed software. Led by a team from the Philippine National Police Criminal Investigation and Detection Group Anti-Fraud and Commercial Crime Division, local authorities raided the Hazama Corp. offices inside the former Clark Air Base...Judge Antonio M. Eugenio Jr. issued the search warrant, which resulted in the seizure of 74 sets of desktop computers loaded with allegedly pirated Microsoft products and 48 PCs with allegedly unlicensed Autodesk software. Police Senior Superintendent...Noel delos Reyes said in a statement that the raid "will have a negative effect on Hazama's operations considering that only six computers were not confiscated by us from their offices...Considering the amount of the funding for the project, however, I don't see any reason why Hazama's management allowed the use of pirated software in the first place. Thus, any delays that will be experienced by the project should be blamed on the Japanese officers of the firm. If the project was in Japan, I don't think they would have used pirated software," the police official added.
PHILIPPINE police raided a Japanese firm contracted to build the Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway last week after local authorities received a tip that it was using unlicensed software. Led by a team from the Philippine National Police Criminal Investigation and Detection Group Anti-Fraud and Commercial Crime Division, local authorities raided the Hazama Corp. offices inside the former Clark Air Base...Judge Antonio M. Eugenio Jr. issued the search warrant, which resulted in the seizure of 74 sets of desktop computers loaded with allegedly pirated Microsoft products and 48 PCs with allegedly unlicensed Autodesk software. Police Senior Superintendent...Noel delos Reyes said in a statement that the raid "will have a negative effect on Hazama's operations considering that only six computers were not confiscated by us from their offices...Considering the amount of the funding for the project, however, I don't see any reason why Hazama's management allowed the use of pirated software in the first place. Thus, any delays that will be experienced by the project should be blamed on the Japanese officers of the firm. If the project was in Japan, I don't think they would have used pirated software," the police official added.
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by nullpointer » Thu Mar 09, 2006 5:55 pm
In the words of my ex-coworker. "Japanese always use legal software. Japanese using illegal software is unpossible.*"
*exactly what she said.
*exactly what she said.
Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms should be the name of a store, not a government agency.
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by Mulboyne » Fri Mar 10, 2006 10:43 am
Leslie! wrote:Hmm, wonder who tipped off the cops? Or was it a shakedown?
The article says:
The raid stemmed from a complaint from the Business Software Alliance (BSA) that Hazama was using unlicensed software.
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by Greji » Fri Mar 10, 2006 11:20 am
Mulboyne wrote:The article says: BSA
Sounds more and more like a shakedown. Local hire source tip off, moves to "Hey you buy the software to get ligit from BSA, or pay appropriately, or we bring the heat!
"There are those that learn by reading. Then a few who learn by observation. The rest have to piss on an electric fence and find out for themselves!"- Will Rogers
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