Show Page 10-- Herald Journal Logan Utah Sunday November 22 1992 Thu There ’s no hiding from the ‘software pohce SEATTLE (AP) — One call to die Piracy Hotline Police” to come - knocking at your computers Parametrix Inc of Seattle found that out last year when the “Software Police” also known as die Software Publishers Association showed up with a search warrant and a US marshal to audit their computers The search turned up dozens of copies of : unauthorized software programs and meant a penalty of $350000 for Parametrix The SPA says too many companies “saftlift” — buying one copy of a proyam and nHng copies for as many computers as they have r It seems so easy — and it’s just as easy to get caught to “It only takes one phone call to the get die ball rolling Anyone taking that chance is living on borrowed time” says Peter Beruk d manager for the Washington litigation SPA ‘ 'You can run but you can’t hide” And the stakes just got higher President Bush recently signed a bill that elevates commercial software piracy from a misdemeanor to a felony The law imposes prison terms of up to five years and fines of up to $250000 for anyone convicted for stealing at least 10 copies of a program or more than $200 worth of software Those in the computer industry say softlifting will be hard to prevent unless programmers are better policed Auto Desk Retail Products in Bothell has met obstacles in educating its staff on the law AutoDesk makes computer-assiste- d drawing programs "The problem is that you end up employing people who don’t want to follow convention” AutoDesk manager John Davison said "We hire hackers To them it’s not stealing they just want to play with the programs "You got a computer you got a hacker you got a problem” he said Bootlegging results in an estimated loss of $12 is all it takes for the "Software 800-numb- er DG-base- billion to US software publishers each year Beruk said That's out of annual sales of $6 billion to $7 billion One in five personal computer programs in use today is an illegal copy according to the SPA’s latest illegal copies of software programs Beruk said At Parametrix an investigation backed up die initial report and SPA got a search warrant Beruk said President Wait Dalrymple says the company now does a quarterly inventory at each computer Once a year die firm brings in an independent company to check for unauthorized programs Softlifting Dalrymple said can be an easy tangle to get into "Our company had had extremely rapid growth coupled with similar growth in the number of computers we use” he said “We had no policy regarding the use of our software and simply didn t control what was happening” Making bootleg copies of software is copyright — as infringement and it’s as illegal — and as easy cassette copying a cassette tape or a video tape A costs $8 a video maybe $25 while compute programs can cost hundreds and even thousands of dollars estimates SPA was founded in 1984 in part to enforce copyright infringement law for software manufacturers Since then it has conducted 75 raids and filed 300 lawsuits Beruk said Several of the larger raids have been in die Northwest The SPA settled a copyright lawsuit against Olympia Wash based US Intelco for $50000 in May Last year die University of Oregon Continuation Center in Eugene Ore agreed to pay $130000 and hold a national conference on copyright law and software use as part of a negotiated settlement with -- SPA The tipoff call often comes to SPA's toll-frHotline from disgruntled employees or reporting that the company is running ee Piracy Freedom creating Jicarting Monday money explosion Find Great Fashions At A Great Price By National a Geographic For AP Special Features Millions of crisp kroons for Estonia and litas for Lithuania have rolled off die presses at a plant that makes paper money in Los Angeles A Canadian company in Ottawa has primed 15 billion Ukraine hyrvnias bound for Like their flags a national currency is a distinctive symbol of sovereign status for some recently independent countries "It’s a unique time for moneymaking There’s a huge potential” says Stanley Kiettman d president of New United States Banknote Carp die largest "security printer” in the Western Hemisphere "Not all of the former Soviet republics have switched from the ruble yet When the fighting stops in Yugoslavia I’m confident well do work for Croatia” Kiettman says "And Czechoslovakia is due to split in January” US Banknote’s Los Angeles plant has already printed 300 million litas in six deaomuuriaofl and 150 million kroons fat throe denominations The colorful Estonian money wu put fat circulation in June Litas portraying a national hero have yet to be reintroduced into Lithuania As a first step coupons have replaced the Lithnimian ruble Another Baltic country Latvia has issued its own ruble ae interim money and may inhoduce lats sometime next year The new Ukrainian money waiting to be circulated fat 1993 when dire economic conditions § Bank 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