Australian Police Accused of Mass Software Piracy

Ernesto
April 24, 2012
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Australian police are involved in a massive piracy lawsuit. Software company Micro Focus is claiming that the police are making unauthorized use of its ViewNow software, which they use to access the COPS criminal intelligence database. In addition, it’s alleged that the police shared the proprietary software with third parties. Micro Focus is fighting the case in court and is demanding at least $10 million in damages.

pirate police The Aussie police are clearly not setting the right example when it comes to copyright infringement. In 2008 computers of the South Australian police force’s IT branch were found to contain hundreds of pirated movies.

There is, however, an even ongoing bigger case in which the New South Wales police are accused of massive software piracy involving its criminal intelligence database.

The software in question, ViewNow, is developed by the UK company Micro Focus. While the company licensed its software to the police in the past, it discovered nearly two years ago the police were using thousands of unauthorized copies.

Even worse, the police also shared the software with third parties such as the Ombudsman’s Office, the Department of Correctives Services and the Police Integrity Commission. All without permission from the software company.

In an attempt to get compensated for several years worth of mass piracy, Micro Focus has filed a lawsuit in which it’s demanding more than $10 million in damages. Micro Focus’ managing director Bruce Craig says they saw no other option than to sue, as they can’t go to the police.

“When someone pirates your software you think who am I gonna call, the police? In this case, they’re the pirates,” Craig comments on 7.30.

“This is potentially a crime that has to be handled as a civil matter because everybody’s got their hands dirty,” he added. “The victims can’t go to police – it’s the police who are doing the stealing.”

At the center of the legal battle is a dispute over the licenses for the ViewNow software. Micro Focus says the police had licenses to install ViewNow on up to 6,500 computers, but in fact more than 16,000 copies were installed. In addition, the police shared copies with other organizations without permission.

“The licenses were for police only. Yet police were out there handing out our software like confetti,” Craig says. “They did not pay for those extra licenses. It’s incredible. It shows an organization that’s completely out of control.”

The police on the other hand claim that they are not aware of any restrictions. Instead, they claim that they could use as many copies as they want according to their interpretation of the contract.

To make matters even worse, Micro Focus is now threatening a new lawsuit as they suspect that the police have replaced the ViewNow software with an alternative called NetManage Applet. This application also belongs to Micro Focus, and they have not licensed the police to use that without restrictions either.

Who’s right and who’s wrong will eventually be decided by the court, but there is already one losing party – the taxpayer. The police have already spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees, and the case has barely begun.

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  At least we now know… they are “immoral thieves” like us.
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      mwhahaha your a fail, police get over paid. They should not be getting paid for corruption. The middle east has sprung in for change last year and it is only time that it will spread to other developed nations and the west. The people are are fighting back and finally see the real deal that their tax dollars have been going to waste and freedoms and human rights are being breached and taken away.
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      The policemen get paid peanuts considering the line of job they are in. Infact most of them get paid less than you button pushing monkeys in office.
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      Who is going to police the police? IMO all policemen are bad. My friend is one of them – he often accept bribes and abuses his power.
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      “They’re just people.”
      
      Yeah, people with a lot of power. I used to be a steadfast supporter of my local police force. Most of the moving violations I’ve gotten have been accidental for example and they’ve usually been easy going when I’ve had to deal with them. Then I began to notice a change in their attitude. It got crueler over time (one really expensive citation was because a new law had been introduced
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      ticket for it despite my protestations). Along with some recent court cases involving police who’ve used excessive force where it definitely wasn’t needed (unnecessarily degrading in one instance, which earned the officer a slap on the wrist) I no longer trust them as a result. Some of the things we’ve been seeing in the news over the past several years hasn’t helped either (which isn’t limited to police, judges have been acting questionably too). This particular news article is a good reminder that they’re all doing the exact same things they’ve been harassing regular folks for. I’d wager it’s always been this way, we’re just more informed nowadays because of the improvements to telecommunication technology. Do as I say, not as I do is a saying that is popping up all too frequently these days and it shows the general public how law enforcement agencies may not even know or understand many of the laws they’re enforcing. As if the world wasn’t scary enough already.
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      You can certainly expect a lot more from this country of criminals than from the Corrupted States of America or its ass kissing loyalists like the UK.
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      Hehehe, too true!
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      We Brits established colonies in Australia to construct prisons. That is the primary reason the British colonies existed and where this running joke comes from.
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  It´s free money from us to some law firm… I will copy more so we get balance.
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Only if all corrupt police were caught we wouldn’t have a need for
police force to begin with. It’s a shame that the public let alone
companies can’t trust the police at all. Good job LEO you make it easier
for us voters to vote you the fuck out.
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  I’d quite like a police force still for all those murderers, rapists and burglars who aren’t currently working as one of the boys in blue.
  
  Are you 16 and a self proclaimed anarchist by any chance?
  - Police are not innocent
    
    So what if I am?The police are evil, and who I am doesnt change that.
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      Yes, the police is evil.
      
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      No, the police aren’t “evil”. Like the rest of us they are quite simply ordinary people.
      
      Ordinary people with a legal monopoly on using violence against the other ordinary people without a uniform.
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      If stupidity were a crime you would be off to the slammer in an instant.
- Seargant Dave
  
  Hi there I’m a policeman. I use pepper spray on civilians. That’s my job
H4rfang

they should put them in jail lol :)
- Wow
  
  Yes, because local police set copyright laws. Oh wait, they probably hate those laws as much as we do genius.
  - Mwhahaha
    
    When it’s taking cash they need to police our streets and diverting it to run petty court cases and supply legal aid for the poor who are being tried on bullshit copyright charges, then yes they do probably see it as a load of old bollock.
    - Anonymous
      
      Just like buying a new CD or DVD is taking money that I use to feed my kids. Totally useless. I agree. Sharing is caring. The more I download, the more I can eat!
  - Anonymous
    
    Yes, in most countries, the police must be feeling somewhat frustrated by now.
    
    In Sweden there are 9 policemen in total which have as a full-time job catching pedophiles.
    There are 15 police officers and three special prosecutors tending exclusively to copyright crime however.
    
    If I were a policeman and had gone into that career with any sort of ideology at the bottom of it, I’d start feeling just slightly ashamed.
http://twitter.com/Anime4PSP Anime 4 PSP

Pff, even police can understand that piracy is sharing of culture. Sharing is caring after all :P
Though I wonder, if even govt organization pirating software and movies, why would they expect average not to?
o btw, I’m working in govt hospital and for the fuck, nearly all software here is pirated :D
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    So flagged.
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      I don’t give a shit about Bieber. She doesn’t affect me much, so I don’t care about her. You’re posting irrelevant things from another thread though. Therefore, flagged.
      
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      I would have gone with the Picard Facepalm meme myself. I think that better gets the concept you’re trying to get across.
      
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- Junk
  
  Haha I know of a policeman and he works in a section that deals with improper behavior if you what I mean any way he went to Melbourne to be taught stuff he said that they really don’t care about people who download stuff only the very bad forbidden stuff they look for when some one says that hey this persons downloaded say the hurt locker he says who cares as he do as well and asks me what is the best site to use
Anonymous

Nothing surprises me these days when in every organization all around the World there are people who infringe. You would think though that the Police would aim to live up to a better example.

Well I hope they liked the hundreds of pirated movies and went on to buy those that they enjoyed.

An organization overrunning its software licence is hardly a big deal and can often be an oversight. They hardly go around counting thousands of computers and in most cases it would be individual users copying this software from one computer to another with some believing a licence covers it. This well explains why some extra helpful users shared copies to other organizations who needed it.

Going on to use their new software though would be nothing more than wanton infringement. They should clearly be aware what they are doing but I would not criticise them when it would save the taxpayers money.

Well since the Police are not out peddling copies then such copyright infringement is NOT a Police matter. Then had they committed a crime then their would be an independent Police complaints commission to wield out suitable punishment.

So this is all a licence renegotiation and Civil Court matter, You do have to wonder though how deep that infringement rabbit hole goes?
- Anonymous
  
  So this is all a licence renegotiation and Civil Court matter, You do
  have to wonder though how deep that infringement rabbit hole goes?
  
  It’s like masturbating. 95% of all people do it. The other 5% are liars.
  
  Everybody shares.
  - Guest
    
    ”http://torrentfreak.com/one-in-three-is-a-music-pirate-090724/”
    
    Research would seem to contradict you. 1/3 admitting to doing something is not small, but you have to realize that there are still hundreds of millions, probably the majority, who don’t pirate. In time, all will come to us, but don’t pretend that everyone does it, because if you do, then you’re ignoring a very real and very significant part of both the opposition and the apathetic.
    - Anonymous
      
      Bullshit.
      I can pretty much guarantee you that everyone ‘pirates’ (shares) in one form or another. Sharing comic books when you’re a kid, listening to your friends new album, taping it to listen to in the car, lending it to a friend in his car, lending a book to your mother, sending your new girlfriend a heartfelt mixtape/mixcd…. c’mon, How many people share without even thinking about it as being stealing??
      
      It’s not stealing!
      
      When the research is comprehensive and unbiased, then we’ll have something to go on. I certainly don’t remember them asking ME in that research. Did they ask you, or anyone you know? Not very comprehensive then. Did they poll around the MAFIAA offices? Wonder what the TRUE results would be there. They also share, but they use the excuse that they are above and beyond those rules. They don’t apply to them.
- Mwhahaha
  
  “they hardly go around counting thousands of computers”
  
  That would be part of the IT dept’s remit. to log when software was put on a machine and when its licence expires. Then you just check a spread sheet. It’s really not hard, especially if everyone’s on an intranet.
  
  Anywho….
  I don’t think I’ve worked in a place yet that hasn’t used unauthorised software. It’s purposeful and everyone upon everyone knows it happens. I’ve not yet met a person who’s purchased MSOffice yet everyone seems to have it. Cept me. Open Office here.
  Office ’97 spread thru homes and offices on a series of CDs after it came out. It happens, if you don’t take piracy into account for your software you’re a retard of the highest order.
  
  Sharing is caring.
  
  It would have been much better if it was antipiracy software they were pirating.
Chuck

They need to take all these legal fees and funnel it into an open source project to replace that software. I mean, when you think about it, companies spend millions of dollars in licensing. They’d be better off pouring that money into an open source project that benefits everyone and actually innovates and not just duplicates.
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  Yeah sorry no. You used the magic word “think”. That is never going to happen.
  - Anonymous
    
    Of course not. Freelance programmers don’t have a lobby presenting their case to an IT-incompetent government bureaucrat by way of a smarmy salesman.
- Mwhahaha
  
  Open source …. police work….
  
  Is it just me or is there a major security question with this idea?
  - Guest
    
    Concepts of Open Source and Police Work fit perfectly together and far wider than just using community developed software (and all the cost savings and efficiency gains it brings).
    
    How many defacto police eyes and ears are now roaming the streets in the form of smart phones? Try assaulting someone in public without getting it recorded. Even the police are finding themselves policed.
    
    Little Brother is much more effective (and less scary) than Big Brother.
  - Danny
    
    Sorry but open source projects are the most secure.
    
    Just look at OpenSSL which the Internet’s security is based on. The main advantage you have is that lots of people will be looking at the code and finding and fixing security holes.
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    The reason open source is more secure is for this reason:
    
    1) Microsoft issues a product. It’s security loopholes are looked at by a few dozen microsoft engineers – and every malicious hacker around. Security loopholes are plugged after they’ve been exploited.
    
    2) A new Linux distro is released in beta. A hundred thousand programmers start combing the sourcecode for exploits and publish their findings. The production release has all found security holes pre-patched.
    
    Generally speaking, open source code is simply more secure as there actually are ten “decent” programmers or more looking for the loopholes for every malicious hacker. Whereas the proprietary version usually is unsecure for years after it’s release.
Thomas

Ten million for piracy over ten years seems a bit low. I’m suprised the NSW police didn’t cough up. I would have liked to see them use the over inflated price of 150,000 per infringement just to see the the governments reaction.

I remember some years back when the NSW police announce it was rolling this system out and that the system would be used country wide to share info etc. So NSW isn’t the only state thats doing it, it would most likely be the rest of the country as well.
- Mwhahaha
  
  Well if you get done for 3K for a 90 minute film… what’s that about 30 a minute, over ten years, that’s about 15.7m a year, ten years, 157m. Per case obviously.
  
  And all that money’s going to be coming into the UK?
  Is it taxable?
  
  We’re SAVED!
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And we thought we were the bad apples.
Expert POLICE who has FORGOTTEN more things that WE ever knew.
If we only knew what Illusion is, we would then
know the opposite: what Truth is. This Truth would
liberate us from slavery.
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  I’d just settle for knowing what the heck you’re on about
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Manosd

that’s why all this anti-piracy madness will fail. because everyone these days will be accused of piracy. and how do i know that you – who represents the “right”, the “law” – are innocent enough to judge me??
Anonymous

so hands up those who expect the police to be stung over this? you gotta be kidding me! never gonna happen. hope the accusers are thinking of the consequences. also think of how the police will react towards others in the same position. that could be interesting!
lthrpuphlfx

What’s good for the goose is good for the gander!
Guest

oh how i l0l`ed!!!!!!

“The victims can’t go to police – it’s the police who are doing the stealing.”
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Mwhahaha

We sent them all the way there and they’re *still* stealing stuff.
Looks like those thieving Aussies need to be sent even further away.
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  we’ll steal ya grandmother if she isnt bolted down………..
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Guest111

This is unacceptable, call in the NZ counter-terrorist force!
anon

Not very different from what the US Department of Justice did with Inslaw, where “Two different [US] federal bankruptcy courts made fully litigated findings of fact in the late-eighties, ruling that the [US] Justice Department “took, converted, and stole” the Promis [software] installed in U.S. Attorneys’ Offices “through trickery, fraud, and deceit…” : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inslaw#cite_note-HR_102-5

Funny how now the US DoJ now makes itself out to be the world copyright enforcer.
- anon
  
  oops, here’s a better link to the Inslaw case if anyone is interested: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inslaw
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Anon

$10 million.. Seems like a very small amount compared to the however many million PER SONG the MAFIAA seems to want.
- Desu75
  
  Yeah and they won’t even get nowhere close to $10m. That’s the benefit of being the government, you can simply say: “It’s too much. Here’s $100k. DEALWITHIT”
  - Danny
    
    Double negative, epic fail!
    - Desu75
      
      That’s racist.
Lm_astra_sri

Makes me proud to be an Aussie
Desu75

The Police can’t break the law. Give them paid vacation for this “offense” and apologize for being caught.
ThumbsUpThumbsDown

If we begin at the begining, we start where we end up: With our disgracefull Copyright Laws. They take us immediately to the Copyright Holder”s Eternal Mantra: PAY! PAY! PAY!

Not, pay once; but pay; and, pay;and, pay again.

Not, pay this week; or, this month; or, this year; or, this Decade; but, pay forever!

Not just that you pay; but, that any visitor who wanders into your shop should pay.
Your brothers, cousins, uncles, schoolmates, and all the neighbors who danced at your wedding should pay. Your mom and dad should definitely pay.

It is easy to think that this Copyright Holder’s Eternal Mantra afflicts only private iindividuals indulging pastimes at liesure; but, no.

Are you a local police department; community hospital; school system; fire department, ombudsman, state agency; or social welfare office trying to meet urgent needs with limited public revenues?

Then, that same Copyright Holder’s Eternal Mantra is definitely ringing in your ears and sucking up a vastly out of control chunk of your public service budgets.

In the present story, The Copyright Holder’s Eternal Mantra shows up as a Ten Million Dollar civil demand under Copyright Law. It should NOT surprise us that the target of copyright infringement claims is here a Police Department. Why? Because this ability to charge people for Intellectual Property multiple times in all of their various social roles in perpetuity is the essential defining attribute of current Copyright Law. We pay in our capacity as customers; but, we also pay, and, pay again, in our capacity as Taxpayers who must fund public budgets made more explosive by premium payments to monopoly Copyright holders. We pay our ISP for premium TV Channels, but we must pay again for the same Movies if we stream them later from a different source;and, if we live or travel abroad, we might find that we must wait six months to see those programs that we thought we paid for yesterday in Londson, Rome, or New York.

Good news, though: Increasingly, The Copyright Holder’s Eternal Mantra is becoming discredited consensus wisdom. The more Police departments and Hospitals and School Districts and Fire Departments they sue on behalf of their monopoly previledges, the more likely it becomes that people will seek the solution for what afflicts them at its source, the Copyright Laws.
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Jason

……. Bahahaha
Gauba Vibhu

To make matters even worse, Micro Focus is now threatening a new lawsuit as they suspect that the police have replaced the ViewNow software with an alternative called NetManage Applet.

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Guest

what 10million in damages? The company survived without these profits and only after the found out did they realize that there were damages…

Now 16000-9000=7000x lets say 100 dollars with is ridiculous for any software

that’s 700 000 in damages at the most so how the hell do they come up with 10 millions

Just because its police does not make it our business Fight Cyber security bills and cases on every level! Abolish these overblown lawsuits a lawyer is an overblown career to begin with that’s why here in Ontario we have armies of unemployed lawyers…literly actual armies of them seeking any type of work to pay of these overblown university tuition’s
Guest

Breaking news:

The judge overseeing the case when brought to court accused of mass software piracy, too.
Richard

They’ll want damages too, when someone ends up in court for sharing/downloading music they’re charged thousands to millions for a few songs.

If they had just downloaded it there wouldn’t be much of a problem but the police have deployed it across networks and have cared enough to share it with an unspecified number of people.

This case is also different for me since it involves law enforcement, they should damn well know better. If the police can make arrests that result in a woman with two kids being impoverished for life, they themselves should be getting prison sentences.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_GIV4SJNQZ6BWEQRGJRWLMPZCJU Chris G

The Police are called the filth for a reason. Those that really know what the cops are like wouldn’t be even slightly surprised by this. In fact this is such an insignificant non-issue people shouldn’t even care less about it. They won’t be paying any lawsuit.
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Anonymous

i think the thing this shows more than anything else is just how screwed up copyright and patent laws are. if things are so unclear to the police, the very body that is supposed to be upholding the law, how are ordinary people supposed to know if they are doing something wrong? the answer is to scrap the whole lot, then there wont be any problems or disputes, will there?
Anonymous

i think the thing this shows more than anything else is just how screwed up copyright and patent laws are. if things are so unclear to the police, the very body that is supposed to be upholding the law, how are ordinary people supposed to know if they are doing something wrong? the answer is to scrap the whole lot, then there wont be any problems or disputes, will there?
Guest

and who the hell do u think would pay for this 10 million dollar law suit? Police or your god damn tax dollars? I say fight this
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Guest

So the tax payers of Australia will be paying the x Ammount? how is that justice?
Anonimouse

They should file for an immediate Injunction stopping the police from using any of their software.
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The licenses were for police only. Yet police were out there handing out our software like confetti,” Craig says.
Lipetilapeti

lock em in and throw away the key…
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Very interesting. The law enforcers are also torrenting. They should have sympathy for other people using torrents.
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it across networks and have cared enough to share it with an unspecified number of people.
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This is not on the newspaper.
Cause they can’t defend themselves,
they can’t say the majority is doing the right thing.

License for 6500.
Used by 16,000.

Priceless.
manpreet git

I use pepper spray on civilians. That’s my job
manpreet git

Australia will be paying the x Ammount? how is that justice?
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Bruce Craig says they saw no other option than to sue, as they can’t go to the police.
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Micro Focus, and they have not licensed the police to use that without restrictions either.
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The police on the other hand claim that they are not aware of any restrictions. Instead, they claim that they could use as many copies as they want according to their interpretation of the contract.
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The police have already spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees, and the case has barely begun.
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it discovered nearly two years ago the police were using thousands of unauthorized copies.
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In an attempt to get compensated for several years worth of mass piracy,

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