MPAA Now Unable to Afford Basic Software

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Cyber Dog

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All the P2P pirating is apparently taking its toll, as it seems the MPAA is now unable to even pay for simple PDF software (despite constantly suing the pants off their own customers). I was browsing the MPAA press releases when I noticed the most recent release (Dec 8th 2005) contains a large watermark as follows:

"Buy Now to Create PDF without Trial Watermark!!"..."Created by eDocPrinter PDF Pro!!".

How very professional of them, using trial software to produce public content. Of course, I suppose at this point we know them better than expecting them to spend $30 on an application for their business when they could just pocket it instead... :no:

http://mpaa.org/MPAAPress/

http://mpaa.org/MPAAPress/2005/2005_12_08.pdf

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Jesse Carlton

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I'm pretty sure it's illegal for corporations to use trial/freeware programs. Being a business they need a business licence for all software they have. Someone should check out the programs eula and website to see if the trial is free for corporate users.

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Jeremy1

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I'm pretty sure it's illegal for corporations to use trial/freeware programs.

It's not. But some trial/freeware programs do prohibit corporate use in their licenses. As long as the license doesn't prohibit it, there is no problem with corporations using the software.

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n30w1n

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If anyone here actually laughed out loud at this, you need to get out... Either that or you hate the MPAA way too much for no damn reason. I mean common, who gives a crap? "Oh noes, someone in a huge organization used a trial version to create a document that found it's way online!" This is even sadder than that time when cracked audio editor hex codes were found under some MS Windows sounds. Who. Cares.

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