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You may joke, but this happened to some people I know, a few years ago, by the BSA, here in Belgium. Not only do they check if you have anything installed now,
by bartl 17y ago
You may joke, but this happened to some people I know, a few years ago, by the BSA, here in Belgium.
Not only do they check if you have anything installed now, but if there was anything, from the software companies they represent, ever installed, for which you cannot prove now, on paper, that you paid for it.
They then offer you the choice to settle now, for a respectable sum of money, or be officially charged, and you can await your trial.
- jrockway 17y agoI would await my trial, where all the illegally-collected evidence becomes inadmissible, and the charges are dropped with prejudice. But of course, it would never get that far, because they wouldn't be allowed in my house, and they wouldn't be given the decryption key. (Any EULA they wave in front of you is invalid in the face of piracy; when you install pirated software, you are only violating copyright law, not the EULA. Let the police deal with it.)