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Hello,
While I realize that in 2013 software piracy (cracking if you will) is impossible to control, you can certainly do your part by:
Piracy hurts all developers large and small (we happen to be small) and are continually finding even the larger studios, post facilities and broadcasters are stealing software.
It also hurts the small shops and independent film makers as you now have to compete with the monolith facilities that are not paying for software. It's certainly more prevalent in some countries over others, and as unusual as it sounds, the larger organizations with IT departments, corporate infrastructures are some of the worst culprits.
Our current known list is small with slightly more than 800 investigations on-going. Of course - dealing with individual 'company's" in specific countries who produce a mass amount of VFX content that:
Most of all compete and/or are off-shoots with US, Canadian and European companies.
VFX solidarity did not really touch on the subject of piracy probably because they don't look at the VFX industry and include software piracy as part of their issue. Well, it's very significant. As we work with a compliancy firm whose sole mandate is to work with software development firms to bring companies large and small to justice.
We have many competitors and partners in the software industry. While we compete, outside of work we are friendly and in complete agreement with the piracy issues that we face today. If I was able to legally publicly shame the corporations, large production companies and major broadcasters that have been caught, the familiar names would shock you (or maybe not)
I've feel no remorse or guilt in reporting our own customers who I've witnessed cracking our competitors software. Do the same... Please and Thank You.
I know I speak for all software developers who live and breath code so you can create. Jeff |
