Those fees can mount up to $150,000 per license per version of software, plus the legal fees of all parties and any profit that was made using the product. Once identified, we initiate a potentially costly campaign to convert them to legal users - costly for the infringers, that is. In our case, in the CAD/CAM sector, we have undertaken a much more concerted and systematic effort in recent years to discover infringers, and we do discover them every single day. Most people use illegal software to “save money.” Huh? Maybe they don’t have to shell out the full price for each license used in their shop, but they are losing much, much more than license fee costs - both directly and indirectly.Īs the use of various manufacturing software programs has grown, so have the companies that develop the software along with their dedicated compliance departments. Even if I wasn’t in the software business, the decision to risk using counterfeit software confounds me.
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