I have a friend that does this and I want to warn him against this if their is a serious punishment if he gets caught. I mean, will the software company sue him or just disable his program?|||It depends on the software, the company and if your friend has downloaded an illegal copy for his own use, is passing copies of it around or, worse, selling copies of it. The big software makers - Microsoft, Adobe, Corel and a few others - have built coded "detectors" into their software. Their programs usually contain code which transmits information (serial number, times of use, etc.) from an internet-connected computer to the company and which can also deactivate illegal software. If a number of illegal copies of the software are detected in an area, an investigation may be started to find the source because of the loss of profit to the companies. They get especially irked if the software's being sold and over-the-top PO'd if a business is cutting costs by using pirated software.
http://www.bsa.org/country.aspx?sc_lang=�?/a>
http://www.microsoft.com/piracy/
The last time I was on the BSA site (last year), they were touting the prosecution of a couple of college students who were working their way through school by selling pirated software. It seems like, since this news got out, the number of people attempting to profit by stealing software has fallen.|||You could be fined or put into jail or both.
Read this article to understand what might happen if busted:
http://articles.cnn.com/2009-06-18/justi�?/a>
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