110 companies raided for unlicensed software in 2017

By The Nation

 

 

BANGKOK: -- In the first half of 2017, Economic Crime Suppression (ECD) police raided 110 companies of all sizes, finding unlicensed software worth over Bt190 million on around 1,380 computers.

More than 90 per cent of the raids took place across a range of industries including auto part manufacturing, design, manufacturing, services, suppliers, building and construction, distribution, and entertainment. Police continue to receive information about use of unlicensed software in these industries and are diligently working with software copyright holders to seek more evidence before raids.

 

The police crackdown has intensified in Bangkok, neighbouring areas and provinces nationwide, including Chiang Mai, Lamphun, Prachinburi, Samut Sakhon, Songkha and Phuket. Most unlicensed software discovered have been products of Microsoft, Autodesk and ThaiSoftware.

 

In 2016, some 69 per cent of Thailand business organizations were installing and using unlicensed software, well above Asia’s average rate of 61 per cent, according to the IDC-BSA survey of global software use. In addition to the police crackdown, several government agencies and private-sector stakeholders are jointly campaigning to convince corporate end-users to purchase legal and licensed software. The agencies are emphasizing the risks posed by unlicensed software, in particular the cyber-security risk.

 

Colonel Vinai Wongbubpa, deputy commander of the Economic Crime Suppression Division (ECD), said technology powered by software underlies every aspect of the way businesses run. To assist Thailand in achieving the objective of digital economy growth, ECD encourages corporate end-users to check that only licensed software is installed, used and run on their networks.

 

If unlicensed software is found, business organizations and relevant authorities may be charged with violating the copyright law. Copyright owners also have the right to file a civil case against them.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30322036

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2017-07-28

LOL. Only 110? 

If all the unlicensed software here was confiscated only maybe 5% of computers would then operate.

Edited July 27, 20178 yr by colinneil

Your being generous! 5% is 10 times too high.

And didn't Microsoft offer to upgrade ALL windows PCs to Windows 10, real or fake, last year

If MS or others created a virus that would disable the thief's Facebook, LINE and other popular apps wouldn't this prompt some payments? 

 

Hurt them where it counts, in their social media apps! 

Edited July 28, 20178 yr by inThailand
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And of all the millions of computers in the military and government agencies there would not be one instance of illegal use of unlicensed software installed by individual users? 

Yet another instance where there is one rule for the government and another rule for everyone else. Or has the government been given special exemption using Article 44?

They only collared 110 because the dodgy copy of XP they were using on the crime room computers couldn't count any higher.
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33 minutes ago, JAG said:

They only collared 110 because the dodgy copy of XP they were using on the crime room computers couldn't count any higher.

Probably.. i can't imagine that there are not more computers with fake software. If they start raiding schools.. government offices and the like ... 

 

I am running legal copies of my software (was not always like that) because of the risks involved with copies (and I don't mean fines).

 

Though I do hate how hard it is to move a original windows from one computer to an other (I do mean retail versions not OEM). I often upgrade my computer and its hard to move the windows then.

Edited July 28, 20178 yr by robblok

 

Run for the hills!

Edited July 28, 20178 yr by LazySlipper

110 with tens of thousands to go. Not even a token number.

The whole of the government, police, army, hospitals, public transport, schools, in fact the whole of the country would grind to a halt if there was some way of shutting off pirate copies of windows......

 Almost as bad as if all the calculators in the country suddenly stopped lol