Originally Posted by
machinster
Oh BTW....
I had a really, seriously bad issue with Vero last year that I never saw coming. I was teaching a machinist where I was doing some programming work how to use SurfCam. The plan was that if it worked for them they'd buy it. Well, a month later I got a certified letter from Vero legal department threatening me with copyright infringement included with the letter was an invoice. If I didn't buy a new copy of SurfCam for $85,000 they would begin legal action within 30 days. I had no idea what was going on, but I was scared almost spitless. A company that big could chew me up and spit me out without blinking.
They claimed that I had been using an unlicensed copy of SurfCam and that even though I had a legal copy, the unlicensed copy still meant that I was infringing on their copyright... What....??? They even claimed to have evidence. They sent me a print out that showed my legal license used where the IP address called to their servers and showed another copy of SurfCam licensed to LND (Legends Never Die) which is a bootlegg signature, probably created by them to entrap people by means of extortion or entrapment...
Anyway, I found out that the chap I had been teaching found a bootleg copy at a flea market and was using it at work, so our systems were shown side by side...
Warning...! Warning...! Warning...!
Don't use bootleg software, I've also heard stories of MCam doing using the very same scam to entrap people...
I really had no idea and certainly, I never thought it could happen to me, I'm very careful of what software I have on my computers...
Has anyone else heard other stories about this type of thing going on...