WALAY RAID......

[larryloy]

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Sunday, September 18, 2005
200 net cafés using pirated software closes
By Lizanilla J. Amarga

CAGAYAN DE ORO -- Some 200 Internet cafés in Cagayan de Oro and Iligan City are temporarily closing down their shops for fear of being raided by the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) for using unlicensed computer software, a source from the trade and industry office said.

But NBI Regional Director Virgilio Mendez said there is no truth to such report. He said he already checked with their Manila office and was told that there is no such order to conduct raids on Internet cafés using unlicensed software.

Mendez said he even called on the NBI division concerned with safeguarding intellectual property rights but also received no information of conducting raids.

"There is no such instruction to conduct raids on Internet cafés or schools using unlicensed Microsoft software," he said.

A source from the regional office of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) who requested anonymity said some 200 Internet cafés in the cities of Cagayan de Oro and Iligan had already temporarily closed shop because of such raid reports.

The source from DTI said Internet groups are asking their office to help asked Microsoft, Inc. to give them a moratorium of three years to purchase the licensed software.

The source said the DTI office is still not sure if they would be amendable to the request of Internet groups.

The source said some Internet café operators are now using the free Linux software rather than get caught with the unlicensed Microsoft software.

Cesilio Salaud, a former owner of an Internet café said they were able to purchase a licensed Microsoft software for P30,000.

He said it would be very difficult to comply with the one license for one or two computers policy for such a price.

Salaud in a text message said for this reason Internet cafés cannot be blamed for not getting the licensed software because it is very expensive and the one or two computer policy for one license is not feasible for the business to prosper.

Salaud said Linux could be used instead of Microsoft but it is "not very user friendly as compared to using Microsoft software."

"But perhaps I am just bias as I am used to using Microsoft," he said.

Salaud and other sources said talks of NBI conducting raids against Internet cafes and even schools using unlicensed Microsoft software products spread late middle of this year.

This when NBI through their website, www.nbi.gov.ph, posted several press releases on their drive against those using pirated software. (Sun.Star Cagayan de Oro/Sunnex)




LINK...?

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/net...re.closes.html

[andz]

lol no comment.

[potterboy]

myt be.

but imagine a scene where almost 1,000 cafe operators here in cebu, scramble for a run to open their cafe's after hearing that raids are just so-so's, then suddenly, the authorities wud have the national order take effect. dungan ug pusas.

in the first place, the authorities dnt need to wait for establishments and operators for their licenses, coz we already knew the matters for a time. that we are using unlicensed softwares. thats enuf for them to brand pirated software-users as criminals. no use for them to wait. weve been given the chance for so many years. grabe tinood ang abuso sa presyo but its what the law requires. we can do nothing about it.

and one more thing to consider, not that i sell OEMs, but this is the truth. millions have already read the announcement on the newspaper about the "REWARD". a million is one big amount. imagine an average of 1000 cafe ops. aint that great for business?

my advice. puslan man nangaligo natang tanan, maypa manabon nalang ta. diba?

[randy111979]

Do Internet Cafe's pay taxes? In what way?

[boliklik]

Do Internet Cafe's pay taxes? In what way?

duh!!!!!!
of course we pay our taxes

[randy111979]

boliklik: am just asking okie? . . . i thought it's like a sari-sari store ... hehehehe ... we used to have one and i dont even know if we paid taxes. hahahaha.

[lomhanz]

sis and bros:

wala diay moy business permit? thats one way of collecting taxes...

binuang ra diay to bai? kinsa kaha nag initiate ato nga balita? microsoft ra gihapon no?

nahutdan pa gyud kuno cla ug stocks!... hehe.. pa supply and demand law effect sad ang mga tonto! maypa anha cla sa colon, dili gyud mahutdan ug stocks...

[boliklik]

@bata

asa man ta pwede mosumbong ba kay kailangan ko ug milyones ron

[christ1an]

Crackdown on pirated computer programs set

The National Bureau of Investigation and the Optical Media Board are set to launch this week an intensified crackdown on pirated computer software.

“This is an all-out campaign against software piracy,� said NBI Intellectual Property Rights Division (IPRD) chief head agent Jose Justo Yap.

Yap said the crackdown, which will start this week, after the 30-day grace period for companies to register their computer software expired on Friday.

Last month, the NBI and the OMB banded together and signed a memorandum of agreement to launch “Pilipinas Anti-Piracy Team� that will go against software piracy.

“Our team is now ready to conduct a series of raids against software copyright violators. We have given them enough time,� said Yap.

For his part, OMB Chairman Eduardo Manzano said the campaign is part of the government’s efforts to get rid of piracy in the country.

“We want to show that the government is determined to make the country piracy-free so that foreign investors will see the Philippines as an attractive destination for their business, without any fear of their products being pirated,� said Manzano.

Manzano said software piracy has continued to be a big threat to the growth of the local information and communication sector. He added it is also the cause of billions of pesos in lost revenue.

“We hope that through this effort, there will be a significant reduction in the country’s software piracy rate and increased awareness and respect for intellectual property rights so that our economy can move forward faster,� said Manzano.

During the MoA signing in Makati City, NBI Director Reynaldo Wycoco called on distributors and computer resellers to stop selling pirated software.

“Dishonest vendors who are caught selling pirated software not only face risk of playing hefty fines but also imprisonment. Piracy is stealing and against the law,� said Wycoco.

The Business Software Alliance, the foremost organization promoting the use of original and licensed software, is supporting the campaign.

A BSA study placed the Philippines’ software piracy rate at 71 percent with losses amounting to P3.7 billion in 2004. Software piracy exists in many forms including corporate end-user piracy, hard disk loading, retail CD-ROMs piracy and Internet piracy.

The most noticeable among these is the sale of counterfeit CD-ROMs in retail outlets inside various malls in Metro Manila and nearby provinces. Joel Zurbano


http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/?...03_sept19_2005
This week kuno huwat nalang ta.

[crinkle]

hay... if nanginahanglan ug licensed software each and every pc, mas mahal pa sa computer set itself and license.