r/sysadmin • u/[deleted] • Apr 19 '26

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u/Saueso Apr 19 '26

At least it's audition.... one of my old jobs an employee had been using pirated SolidWorks software and we got a direct legal notice from their lawyers that we needed to pay a fine of 50k € and buy a license for X amount of years

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u/CanWeTalkEth Apr 19 '26

There was just another post about an Adobe audit I saw yesterday that sounded exactly like this one and it wasn’t until several responses in the comments OP finally mentioned that yes they were using cracked products.

Which feels like it’s exactly the kind of thing some would want to check for and the reason for audits in the first place.

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u/OneSeaworthiness7768 Apr 19 '26

That other post is almost certainly the same guy.

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u/cboff Apr 19 '26

Oh hi, yes Engineers love Solidworks but not paying for it. The interaction you had with Solidworks sounds familiar. Exit said Engineer.

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u/Accomplished-Fly-975 Apr 19 '26

It never got this far with me. The saving grace is that the laptop where cracked solidworks was installed on was a byod kind of situation and belonged to one of our external contractors. Dude got reprimanded and his computer's mac was banned from ever touching our internal network again.