In a major anti-piracy campaign, the BSA used "pirated" photo

Recently, Habré published news that the BSA trade association (which includes corporations such as Adobe, Apple, Microsoft, Oracle and Symantec, and others) launched an anti-piracy campaign that allows you to earn money in exchange for denouncing the use of unlicensed software. . The maximum reward for this campaign is 200 thousand US dollars.

But that's bad luck. In this campaign, a photo was used, which, as determined by Torrentfreak journalists, was simply stolen using it without the permission of the owner.
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In the announcement of the picture, which was used in the campaign itself. As you can see, so is a pot full of gold, which can be kind of obtained by a person who reported a violation - the use by an individual or an organization of unlicensed software.

Upon closer inspection, it turns out that in the photo is a cake made in the form of a pot of gold, and a photograph of the cake is posted by one of the users of the Cakecentral resource. According to journalists, there was every reason to say that the photo was used without the permission of the owner.

In order to determine whether this photo was really used without the owner’s permission, the journalists turned to the anti-piracy project team, i.e. contact BSA. No one answered, but the “anti-piracy” poster itself simply disappeared from BSA's Facebook , where it was originally posted.

But the journalists made a copy in advance (there are very interesting facebook comments on this picture), moreover, this picture remained in the Google cache .

Journalists have already appealed to the author of the photo, recommending to sue the BSA. And now I wonder - will the author of the photo get his pot of gold? Only already real, not pastry.

In general, all this could be considered a trifle if the right holders themselves did not pay attention to such “trifles”, violations, demanding a refund of thousands and thousands of dollars.

Via torrentfreak