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Article: Software bounty hunters cause trouble for unsuspecting firms. (Entrepreneur's Notebook).(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- Los Angeles Business Journal
- Article date:
- September 9, 2002
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ARE you being targeted by a software bounty hunter?
If you're not sure, then consider this: Sometimes a company employee "helps out a friend" by loading a copy of a program into the friend's PC at work. Or maybe an employee has a program at home he or she likes, so a copy is loaded into the PC at work. And some companies just don't care - they buy one copy of a program and "spread the wealth."
If anyone in your company is copying software, you could be looking at thousands of dollars in fines and wasted time repurchasing and auditing programs.
However innocent or deliberate you or your employees' intentions are, you're just a phone call away ...