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It would be so fun to be in IT in Russia right now. Software and film piracy is now completely legal because, if they aren’t selling it, it’s not theft. I could

It would be so fun to be in IT in Russia right now. Software and film piracy is now completely legal because, if they aren’t selling it, it’s not theft. I could put pirated Windows on every workstation with no fear…

jafarlihi 4y ago
Except for the fact that most pirated copies out there contain rootkits.
- rosnd 4y ago
  This isn't true.
dr-detroit 4y ago
ChuckNorris89 4y ago
>It would be so fun to be in IT in Russia right now. Software and film piracy is now completely legal because I'm in EU, not in Russia and still pirate stuff. Granted, it's all for private use. I think what you mean is that now companies in Russia are free to pirate everything for professional/corporate use as well.
- watwut 4y ago
  Afaik, it would not be exceptional in Russia even before war. And not just Russia for that matter.
baybal2 4y ago
An unfortunate Russian citizen here. I left Russia in 2006, but the passport is still like an iron beam on my neck. And you would also get the exit ban. FYI, people who worked for Russian biggest banks are now banned from leaving the country, and that is not only IT, real bankers are banned from leaving as well. Owners of biggest commercial enterprises, and their children were also forbidden from leaving. Russian FOREX, and crossborder transactions are nominally still open, but any outgoing transaction over $10,000 triggers an automatic account freeze. People are also unable to sell their property. There is no official ban, but the necessary paperwork for property sale is impossible to do now. Stock market is bust, but brokerages are also effectively shut down without declaring it publicly. Dividends are frozen because the electronic system controlling dividend transactions simply been physically switched off for months. Russian customs enforcement always been draconian, but now it went into total overdrive, with Russia-Kazakhstan border seeing kilometres long queues because now 100% of all cars, and cargo goes through full search. People been trying to save their last money by trying to get it over the border as gold bars, only to have them seized with zero paperwork.
- _5yv8 4y ago
  You can easily buy cash in those small stores with surprisingly good exchange rates. Also I have converted my Rubels to Euros for months now on the stock market and sent them via Swift into an EU bank (in total above 10k€). So no problems there either. But the customs do question you rather aggressively about cash. Although he didn’t seem to believe me that I didn’t have cash with me, he didn’t search me either.
winReInstall 4y ago
You buy the licenses for legal insurrance, then you of course use cracked software. The DRM in most products is downright dysfunctional, they want you to use warez to get out of any liability clause. So the incentives are there to make the most horrific software that money can buy.
foverzar 4y ago
> It would be so fun to be in IT in Russia right now Yep, that's me. > Software and film piracy is now completely legal No it isn't, sadly. The one immediately good thing I had hoped to happen out of all this mess, sadly didn't happen. What a disappointment, really. Complying to some arbitrary "copyright" rules, enforced by enemy state and lobbied by corporations, that had practically bought "rights" to all the human culture they could get their hands on (especially if they are refusing to license!) is completely ridiculous and fucking stupid. In the current political situation at least they could have legalised SciHub - they couldn't even do that! That's just weak.
_5yv8 4y ago
A friend told me how their Adobe licenses got revoked, but the company just imaged the working version and disabled Internet access for anything Adobe related - it works, but it also means no AI tools or further updates for now. I doubt there will be straight out pirated versions of most products, especially because of the rootkits floating around. Office 365 cancellations are another story. Lots of movement to onprem or relocations of IT abroad are in progress right now. Yandex for example is moving part of it’s operations to Israel.

jafarlihi 4y ago

Except for the fact that most pirated copies out there contain rootkits.

rosnd 4y ago
This isn't true.

dr-detroit 4y ago

ChuckNorris89 4y ago

>It would be so fun to be in IT in Russia right now. Software and film piracy is now completely legal because I'm in EU, not in Russia and still pirate stuff. Granted, it's all for private use. I think what you mean is that now companies in Russia are free to pirate everything for professional/corporate use as well.

watwut 4y ago
Afaik, it would not be exceptional in Russia even before war. And not just Russia for that matter.

baybal2 4y ago

An unfortunate Russian citizen here. I left Russia in 2006, but the passport is still like an iron beam on my neck. And you would also get the exit ban. FYI, people who worked for Russian biggest banks are now banned from leaving the country, and that is not only IT, real bankers are banned from leaving as well. Owners of biggest commercial enterprises, and their children were also forbidden from leaving. Russian FOREX, and crossborder transactions are nominally still open, but any outgoing transaction over $10,000 triggers an automatic account freeze. People are also unable to sell their property. There is no official ban, but the necessary paperwork for property sale is impossible to do now. Stock market is bust, but brokerages are also effectively shut down without declaring it publicly. Dividends are frozen because the electronic system controlling dividend transactions simply been physically switched off for months. Russian customs enforcement always been draconian, but now it went into total overdrive, with Russia-Kazakhstan border seeing kilometres long queues because now 100% of all cars, and cargo goes through full search. People been trying to save their last money by trying to get it over the border as gold bars, only to have them seized with zero paperwork.

_5yv8 4y ago
You can easily buy cash in those small stores with surprisingly good exchange rates. Also I have converted my Rubels to Euros for months now on the stock market and sent them via Swift into an EU bank (in total above 10k€). So no problems there either. But the customs do question you rather aggressively about cash. Although he didn’t seem to believe me that I didn’t have cash with me, he didn’t search me either.

winReInstall 4y ago

You buy the licenses for legal insurrance, then you of course use cracked software. The DRM in most products is downright dysfunctional, they want you to use warez to get out of any liability clause. So the incentives are there to make the most horrific software that money can buy.

foverzar 4y ago

> It would be so fun to be in IT in Russia right now Yep, that's me. > Software and film piracy is now completely legal No it isn't, sadly. The one immediately good thing I had hoped to happen out of all this mess, sadly didn't happen. What a disappointment, really. Complying to some arbitrary "copyright" rules, enforced by enemy state and lobbied by corporations, that had practically bought "rights" to all the human culture they could get their hands on (especially if they are refusing to license!) is completely ridiculous and fucking stupid. In the current political situation at least they could have legalised SciHub - they couldn't even do that! That's just weak.

_5yv8 4y ago

A friend told me how their Adobe licenses got revoked, but the company just imaged the working version and disabled Internet access for anything Adobe related - it works, but it also means no AI tools or further updates for now. I doubt there will be straight out pirated versions of most products, especially because of the rootkits floating around. Office 365 cancellations are another story. Lots of movement to onprem or relocations of IT abroad are in progress right now. Yandex for example is moving part of it’s operations to Israel.