U.S. GOVERNMENT SUED FOR SOFTWARE PIRACY, MAKER CLAIMS $600M

>>55664703
That's less than 1/600 of the military yearly spending budget. They'll be fine.

>>55664746
Their budgets will be fine.
Their reputation, not so much.

Implying this will ever go anywhere

>>55664777
>Their reputation, not so much.
What?

"Well, I'm NEVER going to use the Navy again!"

>>55664798
To be fair though, if you had a choice you'd go with the other guy.

The Navy has ~320k on active duty and they do not have 1 computer for every person.

If it accepts the license then for all I care it is legal.

Clearly if it was installed on over 500,000 computers beofre they "disabled" the tracking then it wasn't picking up on the licenses already being in use which makes it their own fault for writing a shitty licensing engine.

>>55664897
This
also,
>imblyign a coart isun't goieang tuh back dere oawn peeps

>>55664703
not amerikek but when i was in the army we pirated shit all the time on the non-networked computers . sure the army had a shitton of licenses for most mainstream programs and would get us basically anything we asked for it was often waiting for days\weeks\months for something vs getting it in 10 mins .

however even in our shitty army getting a program installed on all the computers int he least secure non-super-sikrit network took a shitton of bureaucracy and is basically impossible to do without 50 people being able to double check its a legit copy .

although this kinda seems like BS to me desu . probably someone snitched about it being on some non-networked computer to get someone in trouble . no way it was on the whole network .this sort of shit happens all the time although usually they snitch to the commander and they delete all the evidence .

Those are pretty low damages

They should learn from the RIAA

>>55664897
>you deserved to have your waifu pillow stolen because your apartment door was so shitty I could open it with just a crowbar

>>55664703
>they installed a 1000$ geographic vr bs program on every single computer of every single making secretary whose job is making cofee all day .

yea right .also does americuck navy use an open-to-the-internet network ?.

I find this incredibly amusing I hope he gets to take it to trial.

>>55666313
He's only suing for the unpaid licensing fees. It's actually quite a bargain for the US govt, they might owe him a lot more in damages for copyright infringement if he was willing to go after it like the RIAA/MPAA does.

>>55666392
It's not going to trial. This is just another patent troll-style suit.

>>55666373
>also does americuck navy use an open-to-the-internet network ?
Of course. I'd play online games over INMARSAT from the middle of the Atlantic.

>>55666577
>This is just another patent troll-style suit.

Fuck no it isn't you cretin

>>55664703
>sue your citizens for pirating overpriced games and chinese cartoons that will never be available in the west
>proceed to pirate half a billion worth of software
AMERICA FUCK YEAH

>>55666828
i hope this makes the government realize how fucking retarded it is to allow people to sue you for shit like this
if they don't like me using/watching/listening to their shit for free, they can look the other way and ignore it, but I'm not going to stop for them.

>it's okay when government does it

>>55666926
It's always OK.

>>55666875
>>55666828
Isn't the TPP supposed to let companies sue the governments?

>>55664811
Nah. I would go with the guy that supports sticking it to greedy companies who charge 1067$ per computer license.

You wouldnt steal a car? Well the government is so why the hell not

>>55667070
IF I could download a car I totally would.

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>>55667070
>making a duplicate of something = theft

>>55664892
I'd wager they have far more than 1 computer per enlisted man. Just because it's a computer doesn't mean it's a computer anyone is actively using, it can be running for years untouched.

>>55667098
Define duplicate

>>55666875
Doesn't congress have to approve anyone suing the government?

>>55664798
Lmfao

>>55664892
The military in general is known for wasting money like no other.

>>55667024
Companies can already sue governments. I think no one really knows what exactly TPP introduces aside from changing IP laws so they're more-or-less the same all throughout the member countries. With TPP the member countries would be obligated to have IP laws like the US has I believe.

>>55667119
Arranging a bunch of 1's and 0's in the same pattern

>>55664703
Just wait until the guys at mIRC find out about the unlicensed copies of their chat client being used on SIPRNET.

>>55667142
You aren't entitled to that arrangement without paying so it is theft.

>>55664892
The number does look a bit fishy. It might be someone who is either employed or formerly employed by the government that posted the software on a file sharing site or something.

It's possible the number is just completely wrong as well.

>>55664892
Except they carry things in reserve. Their equipment is not always just for active navy either. Other branches use their equipment as well.

>>55667137
>>55667024
TPP allows companies to sue government in a 3rd party court.
So the company could've sued the US government in Euro court and the US government would have to comply.

Just another NWO brick.

>>55667137
TPP allows international backing of entities that sue governments.
>company sues government
>court rules against them
>they can now go to international court to sue again
>virtually guaranteed to win

>>55667167
>You aren't entitled to that arrangement
Says who?

>>55667222
Says the copyright law

>>55667232
Not in my country.

>>55667069
And where do you think that money comes from you stupid cuck lmao

>>55667197
Computers are COTS items. We had Gateways back in the day. They probably use Dells now.
This doesn't look to be something that would be on every PC, and the Navy isn't going to have that many PCs. The Navy is a 24 hour a day operation that runs in shifts, so you share resources to start.
There's probably 1 PC per 15-20 people.

>>55667069
Fuck off. Professional geological software development doesn't happen out of thin air.

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Lmfao I hope the lawsuit actually goes through

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>>55667535
Pro tip: Software is a service not a product.

>>55667232
So you're infringing copyright law. Doesn't sound like theft to me.

US military gets kiked.
Funny day in burgerland.

>>55664703
They could have just downloaded DCS for free

how does the navy even allow you to know what software it runs

like.................... this is impossible to even go to court with because of national security

>>55664746
Don't worry, donald trump will fix this waste in military spending

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>>55668007
It's math.