[mdlug] Interesting spam [Fwd: Лицензионное ПО Microsoft - легальное функционирование вашего бизнеса]

Thu Jan 24 12:37:05 EST 2008

Dave Arbogast wrote:
> My wife is from the Ukraine and I've been there 3 times. In the former 
> USSR it is common practice for computer shops to simply pirate all of 
> the MS products.

Remember Gates' infamous letter back in the late 1970's?

 >		 Most people buy systems build at the shops and are
> happy to get their "free" copy of XP in russian. Even the laptops sold 
> there are from SE Asia and come w/o OS. The pirated MS works just fine 
> for them. Its hard for them to justify spending 6 weeks salary on an MS 
> license. We are running such a copy here, but I bought a license for XP 
> and applied it to her Russian version. It did not care the license was 
> for US version and it was being applied to a Russian version.
> 

Yep.

What I see over the horizon is Microsoft getting some
severe blowback from their cultural illiteracy.

1:  Russians aren't used to copyright law, or even
patent law impeding their ability to use ANY intellectual
property that's available.  The USSR had no copyright
system, and they patent system was in place SOLELY to
protect the ability of the government to demand
licensing fees for things foreign producers of Soviet
inventions (and that's not just AK-47's).

2: Russian business community doesn't mind foreign
companies doing business in Russia... AS LONG AS THEY
LEAVE THEIR PROFITS INSIDE THE COUNTRY.  Businessmen
who don't want to reinvest the profits withing Russia,
or use it to increase employee pay, or at least keep
the profits on deposit in Russian banks, soon find
themselves in a one-and-only encounter with the real
Russian mob.  And I'm not talking about the overblown
paranoid fantasy of the western press (which is based
on the confused pronouncements of the middle-aged,
suffering from Soviet-era thinking that defines any
businessman who makes an after-payroll profit as a
menace to society) I'm talking about people who
are willing to murder...and will make quite intricate
plans...worthy of any movie script... but only if
there's at least several hundred grand to be gained
by the crime).

3. Remember what they did to that spammer 2 or 3
years ago (My Russian-language spam dropped by over
50% a couple days later).

4. The Ukrainian mob is even more violence prone
than the Russian mob, and for smaller financial gain.

> -dave
> 
> Aaron Kulkis wrote:
> 
>> I don't think this is going to go over well in Russia.
>>
>> I expect that the end result will be the murder of one
>> or more Microsoft or BSA-type representatives, about
>> 6-24 months from now.
>>
>> [the only thing I don't understand here is why there is
>> something along the lines of "from Microsoft Information
>> (pamphlet?) for the year 2006"]
>>
>> The BSA must be branching out to Russia.
>>
>> I just got this Russian language spam talking about
>> a seminar to be held at 10:30 on January 25th in Moscow, where
>> the topic is "Licensing Microsoft" -- legal functioning
>> of your business", which will cover, among other topics,
>>
>> 		"Unlicensed copies of:
>> 	windows XP Professional (Russian) and
>> 	Windows Office 2003 Professional (Russian)
>>
>> * your office not having on all machines legal software copies
>> * do you want to know what type of licensing Microsoft
>>   (wants to require?) your business
>>
>> *  Computer Piracy
>> *	Computer Piracy in the world
>> *	Computer Piracy in Russia.
>>
>>    blah blah blah
>>
>> *  All? licensing of Microsoft
>> *	Microsoft product licensing
>> *	Program licenses
>> *	Licensing Microsoft Windows Vista
>>
>> * Question and answer period
>>
>>
>> It looks like the era of "We don't mind if you take a
>> few free samples of MS crack" is ending in Russia.
>>
>>
>> Now..the interesting thing here... until recently,
>> Russia had no copyright laws (too "capitalistic"),
>> and only passed them to be admitted to the G-8 and
>> other international economic organizations.
>>
>> They're also under severe pressure to clamp down
>> on music piracy, to the point that some American
>> credit card affiliate banks have been refusing to
>> process transactions with Russian CD/DVD vendors,
>> out of fear of the MPAA and RIAA. (Even though
>> most Russian music and dvd retailers are shipping
>> legitimate products),
>>
>>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: 	Лицензионное ПО Microsoft - легальное функционирование вашего
>> бизнеса
>> Date: 	Thu, 24 Jan 2008 07:44:39 +0300
>> From: 	Nikolay <info at infon.co.uk>
>> To: 	<burn-out at hotpop.com>
>>
>>
>>
>>   Лицензионное ПО Microsoft – легальное функционирование вашего бизнеса
>>
>>
>> 25 января, 10.30
>>
>> Бесплатный семинар
>>
>> ПРАВООХРАНИТЕЛЬНЫЕ ОРГАНЫ ПРОВОДЯТ ПРОВЕРКИ В КОМПАНИЯХ, ИСПОЛЬЗУЮЩИХ
>> НЕЛИЦЕНЗИОННОЕ ПРОГРАММНОЕ ОБЕСПЕЧЕНИЕ, И МАГАЗИНАХ, ПРОДАЮЩИХ
>> КОМПЬЮТЕРНУЮ ТЕХНИКУ И ПРОГРАММНОЕ ОБЕСПЕЧЕНИЕ.
>>
>> Из информационного бюллетеня Microsoft за 2006 год:
>>
>> «5 октября 2006 г. сотрудниками ГУВД по г. Москве была проведена
>> проверка в ООО «N», расположенном по адресу: ... В ходе проверки
>> сотрудниками правоохранительных органов было изъято 3 компьютера с
>> установленными нелицензионными копиями *Windows XP Professional
>> (Russian)* и *Microsoft Office 2003 Professional (Russian)*. Общая
>> сумма
>> ущерба составила 50,863 рубля. Вопрос о возбуждении уголовного дела
>> находится на стадии рассмотрения...»
>>
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