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Akeldama
12-09-2005, 04:27 AM
Novalogic has been fined $153.000 for using unlicensed copies of Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, FileMaker, Macromedia, Microsoft and Symantec software on its computers. This was discovered during an Business Software Alliance audit and according to the Novalogic's president, Novalogic is… sorry. It’s naturally quite embarrassing for a software developer to be caught using other companies’ software illegally. You can read more about this story over at Boomtown (http://pc.boomtown.net/en_uk/articles/art.view.php?id=10042).
reptilezero
12-09-2005, 06:32 AM
wow. didn't think stuff like this actually happened!
camberiu
12-09-2005, 06:35 AM
Bunch of hypocrites.
BabyJesus
12-09-2005, 07:35 AM
Doh!


Doh!
Nite_Moogle
12-09-2005, 08:22 AM
Oh the bleeding irony!
Deadend
12-09-2005, 08:32 AM
I think the right price is $153,000, as $153 sounds a little.... weak?

I wonder how many other studios use pirated goods, espically the really small ones based in Russia, China, and other places where the cost of some of those products is much more than a household income.
trip1eX
12-09-2005, 09:17 AM
hehe. That is funny because they have some strict rules about selling their games to another person. And won't even help you reset an account or anything.
PacerDawn
12-09-2005, 09:29 AM
My guess is that this wasn't company software, but just stuff that the individual employees had loaded and were using.

This is why professional companies typically don't give employees admin rights to their PC's, because in they end the company is libel for what is on there, and employees will load just about anything.

Time for some firings.

Now, if Novalogic was doing this as a company practice however, ooooooooooh....
Hijinx
12-09-2005, 09:30 AM
I-RO-NY: An expression or utterance marked by a deliberate contrast between apparent and intended meaning See: Novalogic
Vulture
12-09-2005, 09:57 AM
Filemaker - ouch!
nonchalance
12-09-2005, 08:25 PM
My guess is that this wasn't company software, but just stuff that the individual employees had loaded and were using.

FileMaker?
and Symantec software? Surely the company would be paying for the anti-virus licenses and database software.

This is seriously fucked up.