Sure it would be much more than that. They would also

hit you for any applications you have developed and made money from with unlicensed versions of software development tools.

Posted By: Steve in Holland on November 10th 2005 at 10:25:40

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Bit of advice needed... (General Chat) - pieman63, Nov 10, 10:18:30
- Most of the major software vendors (General Chat) - camcan, Nov 10, 10:54:18
- Check out the federation against software theft for an anonymous way to tip them off (General Chat) - Partial Angler, Nov 10, 10:26:07
- Worse than that - you get a reward (or used to). (n/m) (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Nov 10, 10:22:14
- Dunno. Probably. The sanctions for getting caught are, i believe, quite harsh. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Nov 10, 10:22:08
  - Microsoft is a good start. Then the software manufacturers... (n/m) (General Chat) - Arganth, Nov 10, 10:24:14
- usual fine is around ?2K - they hit you know not when (n/m) (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Nov 10, 10:21:35
  - plus (rant) if Quark charged a f***ing reasonable price for their software not so many (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Nov 10, 10:25:03
    - Even better. They don't offer a server based solution so (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Nov 10, 10:44:06
    - Bing - Studio is over ?500, Director is about the same. (n/m) (General Chat) - Arganth, Nov 10, 10:26:57
      - Just bought Studio 8 including Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks etc etc - ouch! (n/m) (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Nov 10, 10:28:24
        
        I was looking at a copy with an educational licence on Ebay... (General Chat) - Arganth, Nov 10, 10:33:11
  - Oh that's a shame - I was hoping for something a bit more substantial! (n/m) (General Chat) - pieman63, Nov 10, 10:22:36
    - Sure it would be much more than that. They would also (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Nov 10, 10:25:40
      - talking specifically about Quark, someone I know got hit about 5 years ago - could well be (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Nov 10, 10:27:11
        
        Quark and Adobe are two of the worst (n/m) (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Nov 10, 10:44:40

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