Principal Guilty In Software Piracy Case

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A Russian court found the principal of a village school guilty of software piracy and ordered him to pay $195, about half his monthly salary.

The trial of Alexander Ponosov, who was charged with violating intellectual property rights by using classroom computers with pirated versions of the Windows operating system and Microsoft Office software installed, has attracted wide attention. Microsoft, however, has said repeatedly it has nothing to do with the charges, which were brought by Russian prosecutors in the Ural Mountains region where Ponosov's school is located.
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Don't Download This Song by Weird Al Yankovic said:
Oh, you don't wanna mess with the R-I-double-A
They'll sue you if you burn that CD-R
It doesn't matter if you're a grandma or a seven year old girl
They'll treat you like the evil hard-bitten criminal scum you are
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...or a school principal in a tiny town in a destitute country.
 
Moral of the story: It doen't pay to teach our children how to use Microsoft products.
 
Moral of the story: It doesn't pay to teach our children how to use stolen products.

Fixed it for you.
 
Wow, if the teachers make less than $400 a month, then I am wondering how they would have even afforded computer with legitimate Microsoft products on it... Maybe Microsoft should use this opportunity to donate some equipment and software to this school so they can be 'legal'.
 
Moral of the story: It doesn't pay to teach our children how to use stolen products from a company that steals IP themselves.

Fixed it for you.

BTW, thanks for fixing the typo for me too.
 
yagisencho said:
Moral of the story: It doesn't pay to teach our children how to use stolen products.

Fixed it for you.
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Moral of the story: It doesn't pay to teach our children how to use stolen products that came with computers and were represented as legitimate.

Fixed it for you.
 
Moral of the story:In Soviet Russia, software uses you!!

Fixed it for you.
 
UrielDagda said:
Wow, if the teachers make less than $400 a month, then I am wondering how they would have even afforded computer with legitimate Microsoft products on it... Maybe Microsoft should use this opportunity to donate some equipment and software to this school so they can be 'legal'.
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That is MS, best option in this case. I mean the press MS would get for sending over a few machines would far outweight the price of them. How many machines we talking about anyway? Prob less the 20 or 30 machines.
 
Was this school a state run school? If so the Principal would have had little to nothing to do with the purchase of said computers.
 
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