BBC News - US agrees to pay $50m after ’piracy’ of software

Trop parler nuit…

Presentation revelation
Apptricity later estimated that 9,000 users were accessing the program, in addition to the 500 that had been paid for.

The unauthorised copying only came to light after a US Army official mentioned “thousands” of devices running the software during a presentation on technology.

Et un gentil appel à "témoignage" sur ce site spécialisé.

Army ‘Borrowed’ Logistics Software ; Pays $50M To Apptricity « Breaking Defense - Defense industry news, analysis and commentary
▻http://breakingdefense.com/2013/11/army-borrowed-logistics-software-pays-50m-to-apptricity

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C’est pas du piratage, c’est de l’ #over_deployment…

Encore mieux ! Rétro-ingéniérie délictueuse…

US Army Gets Caught Allegedly Pirating $180 Million In Software - Business Insider
▻http://www.businessinsider.com/us-army-pirate-software-2013-11

And when the Army found out, the company alleged it tried covering its tracks.

“Apptricity discovered that ... the Army had engaged another contractor, Future Research Corporation of Huntsville, Alabama, to reverse engineer a portion of Apptricity’s software application suite and proprietary framework architecture to replace certain infringed intellectual property rather than pay for the license shortfall,” the complaint read.

The company went on to explain it found out through the Army providing them one of the reverse-engineered copies of the software.