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Old 31-10-2009, 03:02 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Clampdown on pirate programs in Phuket

URGENT WARNING

I have just returned from my office in Phuket and was suprised to find the building locked.

Phoned the company that I share the premises with and the boss appeared and unlocked the door from the inside !!

Their office was a hive of activity with half a dozen local pooter specialists going through their computers and backing every thing up before deleting the operating systems .

Yesterday a 'Hit Squad' authorised by the governor as part of his "Clean up Phukets Image" campaign and backed up by a heavy police presence, decended upon the Boat Lagoon and Royal Phuket Marina area, impounded all computers and checked for Pirated soft ware. Several companies have closed until they pay a fine of 500,000 Baht and install genuine software.

Today they are still working through the area( hence the panic in the office downstairs) and the word on the street is that the campaign will cover Phuket Town and then move on to Patong and other areas !

Although my laptop was bought new from the ACER dealer in Taiwan I was not given the software disk so to be on the safe side I took it home !!

Will add more info as it becomes available but this seems a lot more serious that the Music scam thing that happened a while ago.
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pheww!! and i thought THAILAND was a dangerous place..good to see the nations finest takeing care of the true crims
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pheww!! and i thought THAILAND was a dangerous place..good to see the nations finest takeing care of the true crims
Appreciate the humour Mr Ned but a 5000,000 fine and shutdown is not so funny
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pheww!! and i thought THAILAND was a dangerous place..good to see the nations finest takeing care of the true crims
.........only if there's a profit motive behind it.
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Several companies have closed until they pay a fine of 500,000 Baht
Which will of course be passed on to Microsoft, the injured party.
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Happening all over in Chiang Mai too, started this week. Fines are in the millions so I've heard.

I'm sure all the cops doing the raids are using genuine software are their computers.
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Old 31-10-2009, 03:26 PM   #7 (permalink)
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The Hit squad has a lot of Microsoft nerds in it !!!

Saw and heard 2 of them discussing progress in the Boat Lagoon Bakery cafe this morning !!
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Old 31-10-2009, 03:35 PM   #8 (permalink)
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Although my laptop was bought new from the ACER dealer in Taiwan I was not given the software disk so to be on the safe side I took it home !!
Are they going to hit anyone with a pooter or only business's?
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From what I understand they are concentrating on registered companies.
Goin out to night with a mate who has been shut down and should know more tomorrow
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Throw a little bit of western corporate money at them and that Thai Love Thai thing seems to go down the toilet quite fast.
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Throw a little bit of western corporate money at them and that Thai Love Thai thing seems to go down the toilet quite fast.
i didnt think they were allowed to self love anymore because their messiah was shown to be a criminal and his disciples were banned?
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I hope they raid my office, I shall grin smugly from behind my MacBook, but I can imagine it will be a struggle to explain what Slackware Linux is to these muppets when they start looking at the desktops.
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it will be a struggle to explain what Slackware Linux is to these muppets when they start looking at the desktops.
Hopefully some people will realise theres a useful free alternative to getting busted by the tech police. I dont hold much hope out though.
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Just had a phone call from my mate who was shut down. It appears that his wife (thai) has a brother in the hit squad police - cant help him 'cos the papers are already in City Hall but may be able to let it be known what and when other areas will be hit - she was talking to him today and he was saying that he will be away for a while at other police stations and wants her to look after his wife who just produced a rug-rat last week. She will ask him for contact numbers and dates at which station so she can keep in touch !

She is totally pissed off as she is a co- director in my mates company !
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TBH, does anyone in Thailand have real software, besides Microsoft itself and IBM? I don't even know where to get the real ones in Thailand.
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seems like the Police is trying to explore new markets to squeeze,

I suspect the Jet Ski market is done,

they make it sound official, but I doubt it is
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