This guy claims Autodesk raided his work and fined them for downloading trail software? Anyone know anything about this or is this rubbish? http://www.3dbuzz.com/vbforum/showthread.php?t=178180
No idea about this case, but I do know they were trying to strong arm several Blender only studios in India a while ago. Apparently they will raid any business that produces 3d content and doesnt own enough Autodesk licenses.
I remember this happened during my internship at a game company... They got fined because programmers installed a trial version of Autodesk Viz to test/make some minor changes, so assets didnt have to go back and forth between artists and coders x times. The fine was pretty high, but I cant remember the exact amount(in the…
Based on what's written in those snippets of the EULA posted, simply having the trail versions loaded on to machines in a commercial environment appears to be enough to warrant an 'audit'. It does also say that they (Autodesk) are supposed to give "reasonable notice" of an audit being initiated so without looking at the…
sounds like bullshit.....who lets 4 guys claming to be reps come in and just look at the software on their workstations. ...if they had cops and a warrant..yeah..but the guys says: "Four people came: together they represented Microsoft, Adobe and Autodesk." I wonder if the reps were Nigerian? Ok I kept reading...said they…
Define "guilty'? Did I do something that was against the EULA, yes I did, I'll bet you can't find one person who hasn't violated on in his lifetime. We did not do anything commercial with Maya PLEs. We did not do anything commercial with 3ds Max 30-day trial. We did not do anything commercial with our 2009 Inventor after…