Re: SPA et al

["Steve Lauder" <steve.lauder@elspa.com>]

Hi again Stephen, thanks for your comments.

We don't actually deal with corporate piracy of applications, we deal
primarily with "Leisure Software" eg Games & multimedia titles.

Here in the UK, we don't take a tip-off and go gung-ho on a company or a
pirate, we use private investigators to make test-purchases, so we have
physical evidence of their activities.

The company in the UK that deals with corporate piracy is called the PCA
(Personal Computer Association), and even they aren't so off-the-cuff.  If
they receive information about a company, they send a letter to them first,
asking for official license documents for the software, and then they check
3 computers a day - to avoid too much disturbance, and gradually go through
the company.

Anyway, its good to here some people do care about the legalities behind
their software usage - it benefits all of us at the end of the day (more
money to put back into development)

Steve Lauder