The Russian copyrightwaakhond Roscomnadzor acknowledge guilt after an investigation by a public service, illegal software is found. It would go to piratenversies of software from Autodesk, Corel and Microsoft.
According to TorrentFreak, it was in July after an investigation of the ministry of Economic Affairs announced that the Russian copyrightwaakhond Roscomnadzor on a number of pcs with illegal software was used. On a number of systems were piratenversies of software, among other Autodesk, Corel and Microsoft. Also Photoshop versions without the necessary Adobe licenses were found. In total, the software would have a value of several thousand dollars. Five pcs were seized.
The Russian regulator sets the found piratensoftware years ago by a few employees is installed. Further there would be on the pcs of executives, no illegal software are found. The ability for employees to self-install software is now disabled.
The news about illegal software at Roscomnadzor is for the supervisor can be very inconvenient now that the Russian authorities, partly at the urging of the copyrightwaakhond, just this month strict anti-piracy laws have entered. The copyrightwaakhond says that any punishment will be accepted and that the responsible employees sanctions may expect.