A game developer was recently raided by the Business Software Alliance. If you don't know about the BSA, then let me assure you that you really need to read those licenses that come with your software. When you agree to the license, you agree to allow them full access to your PC. These folks do not fool around. The company I worked for was "raided" after the company fired an IS employee. He turned them in, and lets just say that we did not get a bonus that year.
Any who, this topic has nothing to do with anything, just an interesting read. The full story can be read at
http://gamespot.com/gamespot/stories...875738,00.html for those interested in reading it.
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Project Entropia may be the only massively multiplayer game where the story behind its development is as fascinating as the Online world it creates. For the past two months, Swedish designer MindArk AB has been attracting more media attention for what's taking place behind the scenes than for what's going on with the game itself. Although controversy has been present all along--something that's to be expected when you're launching the first massively multiplayer game that uses real-world currency--everyone was taken aback when the company's head office was raided by agents of the Business Software Alliance (BSA) on April 23 in search of unlicensed software.
"When the raid took place, MindArk's staff was forced to leave work and the entire process took about 11 hours," explained public relations officer Marco Behrmann. "The authorities' job in a case like this is to go through the computers, document software installed, but make no judgments. The companies behind this raid were Adobe Systems, Autodesk, Macromedia, and Microsoft."
According to the BSA, hundreds of unlicensed programs were found during the search. Behrmann denies that, claiming that the company has always "been vigilant in keeping record of all licenses." At present, Behrmann says that MindArk is "getting the legal process in motion" and plans to show that licenses had, in fact, been obtained.
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[ August 03, 2002, 01:00: Message edited by: Atrocities ]
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