Mask shows and other checks of companies for non-licensed software

Question

Law in IT

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Interested in the following question, does anyone have experience with software checks in the company for legality? What served as the basis for the check, did someone snitch, some kind of planned one, or something else? What were the consequences?

Answer 1

It was. They snitched. I tell the picture itself:
A person comes to me to get a job. At that time, they were just looking for a new employee, for a non-key position. I don’t remember if they advertised, but they definitely looked for it. The person passes the interview, but at that time he has not yet begun his duties - he just hangs out, gets used to it, gets to know each other. And literally on the second day ...
A friend comes to him. They agree on something. I watch out of the corner of my eye. A friend brings a system unit in a box under his arm and leaves it. I ask “what is this?”, the rat replies “yes, my friend brought it in, it’s uncomfortable here with him back and forth, it’s necessary to cleanly fix the typewriter. Stay here until the evening, like you can? I answer "it is possible".
A couple of hours pass. A comrade in civilian clothes returns, in the office they are talking with a Cossack. She hands him a few hundred-dollar bills rolled up and leaves. The rat comes up to me and puts money on my table. My main mistake : at that moment I was intensively talking on the phone, and did not attach much importance to this gesture. I asked him with a look: “why?”, He waved it off, like “I'll explain later”, and left the room.
A couple of minutes later, two comrades in civilian clothes enter my office, and with them two girls. The comrades in civilian clothes are presented as OBEP operas, the girls are like witnesses. They looked like law students. Millionaires demand to present the money received for installing the server version of 1C 7.7. SQL on this system unit and on the CD, which is stuck to it from above with adhesive tape. Naturally, I make round eyes. We had Red Hat (2007) on all the machines, the accountant was generally outsourced, there was no cash in the office, and the main thing was, as it were, the business was generally abstracted from the essence of their issues . They run into. I send. Specifically, they come. They take out hundreds of bills from my desk - eight pieces. They show a photocopy and demand that I sign it. The fact that I was seized 800 rubles.
Naturally, I send. We bickered for about an hour, then one of the valiant servants of order went out into the corridor to make a phone call. A few minutes later, show masks arrive, they drop me on the floor with their muzzles and take me to the police department.
In the police office they press for another couple of hours. They press specifically, unless they beat. Sign yes sign. Naturally, I do not sign. In a nearby office, they are pressing a rat, which was taken along with me.
I didn’t sign anything to them, and I didn’t confess to anything - there was nothing to confess. After a couple of hours, both are taken down. I thought they were letting go - figs there. The rat is led out into the lobby, and it sort of leaves the police station. And they take me to a special detention center. They register him as a detainee for "disobedience to a police officer."
He spent the next two days in a detention center. A small cold room without windows and heating. It was winter outside, cold. There were about 30 other people there with me - homeless people, drunks, leftists, rightists ...
There was one dish on the menu - tap water, from a faucet sticking out of the wall right above the toilet. Guests were periodically brought in and taken away, no one asked me.
On the third day I was taken out of there and taken directly to the Magistrate's Court. The judge told everything as it is, but she sentenced me to a fine of 1000 rubles, for the same "disobedience". Released directly from the court. It was difficult to catch a taxi, the battery in the mobile phone was dead, I was wearing a coat (it was winter outside), this coat looked appropriate, and so did I ... I paddled home on foot, even though it was not very far.
I found out that the “injured party” in the case is a 1C dealer company from a neighboring city. Actually, acquaintances. We communicated several times, worked together, met at seminars, exhibitions and conferences. Went to them, asked to resolve the issue. An interesting point - they refused . I thought a lot about the sexual orientation of that director, and 1C dealers in general.
The version of the same 1C that I allegedly sold for 800 rubles to an employee of the Economic Crime Department cost at that time more than 70 thousand rubles. Therefore, they talked about causing damage on an especially large scale, and so on.
As a result, the case in the prosecutor's office still fell apart. I don't know the reasons. The investigator of the prosecutor's office interrogated me twice, I was consistent, stating the facts as they are. But the minutes of the interrogation still magically did not include the moments about the behavior and actions of the cops. He dictated in syllables, but it was not printed on paper. Just magic.
Rat figured out. A really mishandled Cossack, a drug addict - a police six. I was really ordered, he was sent and so on.

Answer 2

They passed by, saw a beautiful sign... They showed the official (on a letterhead with a seal and a signature, written by hand, in a hurry) an inspection decision based on an anonymous complaint, they came in, took screenshots and offered to show the licenses on the spot. There was no place - the company is big. The next day they came with a truck to confiscate the equipment.
Only a quick application to the prosecutor's office and the internal security service helped. And urgent display of licenses sent from the central office.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

There was one moment.
Somehow 2 comrades came to work with us. They waved their crusts and said, “We received operational information that you are using unlicensed software at the enterprise. What do you say in your defense?" Is it necessary to say that the authorities were frightened? The cost of software installed in only one department would be enough for 3 such enterprises to buy Windows with an office and an antivirus program to boot.
In general, they got away, thanks to connections, although I had to twitch pretty much. Up to the point that in a panic they hid the server in construction debris. No kidding. In the same panic, and this was expressed in rather tough and sometimes senseless orders from the authorities, OEM windows were bought (by hook or by crook), Linux was installed on some of the servers, the office was removed from the entire enterprise, documentation of some departments on hidden TrueCrypt sections was hidden.
As it turned out, one OBEP operator wrote to another office that the company was using unlicensed software. And all the power of the bureaucracy fell upon us ... The case was clearly custom-made, according to rumors - the developers claimed a part of the territory of the enterprise. But everything was shattered. Now I try to install FreeWare wherever possible. Fortunately, for 90% of office tasks there are free analogues. A drop in the ocean, but at least something.

Answer 5

You have already been given a link, but I will tell you how it was in our company. A week before the “visit”, kind people warned about the check. But, as they say, the company is not without a crooked admin :) when checking, 4 unlicensed programs were found for a total amount of licenses of ~ $ 800. They threatened with a finger, they said they would come in a week and double-check. Everything was cleaned, a week later a new check. The kosyakov were not found, they said goodbye.