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veiledsentiments
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Do you mean that you think that someone might check to see if your software is licensed?
How would they do that? Who would do that?
I think you win the prize for the most original question asked here in many a year. (especially when I think about all the software that the computer guys in the colleges used to load on our laptops... at that time, I wouldn't have known even the meaning of the term "pirated software." Ignorance was bliss...)
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Linguist
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Veiled,
I have heard that in some countries they ask to check your laptop for pirated software. This is what they do with Saudi students who go to the US for study. They want to know if the students have given Uncle Gates his rights.
A few years ago in Singapore, I had to remove my laptop from its bag for the x-ray. These guys are nuts. |
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007
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| Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 10:20 am Post subject: |
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| This is what they do with Saudi students who go to the US for study. They want to know if the students have given Uncle Gates his rights.n |
Well, with the Saudi students visiting USA, and after the 9/11 events, the agents of Uncle Sam are not looking for pirated softwares, they are looking for something else, which is classified under "sensitive information"!
Also, at any airport in UK or USA, your laptop should be X-rayed for security reasons which have nothing to do with softwares copyrights.
One way to check the copyright of a software is when you want to update/upgrade the software through internet, for example, Microsoft can detect if your Windows is genius or not, and it will warn you about that. |
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jeddah999
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Interesting.
So it sounds like it's nothing I should really worry about then. |
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Never Ceased To Be Amazed
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007: MY Windows is genuinely genius! 
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veiledsentiments
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| Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 2:58 pm Post subject: |
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| Linguist wrote: |
| This is what they do with Saudi students who go to the US for study. They want to know if the students have given Uncle Gates his rights. |
Where did you get this information? I am just curious because I have never heard of such a thing. I am tempted to say that 007 might be right on this one and they are actually looking for something else... or loading something onto the computer for tracking purposes.
If the US truly cared about pirated software on arriving laptops, they would check every foreigner that arrived with a laptop... Saudis are certainly NOT more guilty of using pirated software than any other country.
Interesting times...
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Stephen Jones
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| Very difficult to see how they could check that the software on a computer was not pirated at customs. |
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