When
nature slams your business, a repeat disaster could easily
follow—this one of man-made origin. This 5-part Briefing Series helps you
minimize the inevitable post-disaster software piracy audit risks.
From where we stand there isn’t a whole lot we can do to relieve
the misery each of you has encountered, but The
Institute
wants to help where we can. So, here is our offer: We can help you
prevent the next catastrophe with advice and guidance via the
Internet.
It
is now painfully obvious to all business technology consumers that
computers, software, documentation, and electronic data make pretty
lousy submarines. In the average disaster, the very core of your
business is most likely gone or virtually unrecoverable. You are
about to rebuild your technology infrastructure from scratch—be it
two computers or twenty thousand computers—and, if you aren’t
extremely careful, the con artists are going to set you up to get
hammered yet again. You do not
deserve that kind of abuse, so our primary goal is to provide advice
to help you avoid future software piracy and non compliance punitive
audit experiences courtesy of the software police and copyright cops.
Our secondary goal—a very close second—is to enable you to save
money when you re-invest in new technologies.
This
article series was originally posted on our site for the benefit of
victims of Katrina and other disasters. However, we quickly
discovered a serious need for accurate, vendor-neutral advice on
acquiring technologies after crippling events. Read on and consider
what we have to offer individuals and companies that have been
disaster victims.
Hello!
I’m Alan Plastow, founder of The Institute for Technology Asset
Management. After a disaster, when you buy your new computers, very
frequently you’ll be looking for maximum product at minimum price.
You’ll have little choice: Money is going to be tight. Although
this is a perfectly normal reaction to the misery you’ve gone
through, you need to be extremely careful of the operating systems,
software, and other copyrighted products placed on those computers.
From where I stand, I can predict with nearly 100% certainty that
within a year of any significant disastrous event (18 months at the
most) the software police and copyright cops will conduct mass
software piracy, copyright violation, and license non compliance
punitive audits in the areas of devastation.
Companies
that are trying to recover from a disaster are going to fall prey to
the “easy licenses” and “bargain costs” of counterfeit
software and other products—including hardware. As well, these same
companies, with their limited financial clout, are going to begin
using shareware products to delay some computer-related expenses. The
result? You will be setting yourselves up as easy targets for
litigation by the nearly thirty members of the software police and/or
copyright cops that are active in the U.S.—nearly 100 globally.
Another
key issue you will need to become aware of is that the documentation
from your software purchases is very closely scrutinized during a
software non compliance, or piracy, audit. If, when you purchase your
new copyright protected products, you do not receive the correct
license; proofs of purchase; stamps, emblems, marks, or certificates
of authenticity, or master media you will become a potential disaster
target all over again.
Of
all the businesses in the world, you are in a unique position. As
demoralizing as your experience has been, you now have the
opportunity to rebuild your business into something bolder and better
than it may possibly have become prior to the disaster. Please permit
me, at no cost, to guide you with advice in avoiding the software
piracy audits that can easily follow your efforts to rebuild.
Monitor
the Taminstitute.org blog site to access these full Disaster Recovery
Knowledge Briefings. It’s free and you, your employees, and your
company will benefit through short- and ling-term cost and risk
reductions in technology asset management. This is the place for
Disaster Survivors where I will answer your questions and provide no
cost advice. Don’t suffer through the pain of recovering your
business technologies only to be blind-sided and hammered all over
again for incorrectly licensed copyrighted products after you are
back in operation. We can provide the advice that you need.
With
great respect for what you are enduring,
Alan
L. Plastow
Founder
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