Usually Brett calls their Mommy. That ends things right there in most cases. I've heard it. Ugly, real ugly. He has in the past called employers as well. Say goodbye to that job.
For instance:
He was referred to a warez site running a UBB download that was a subdomain of a fairly substantial corporation. They now have one less IT worker. They were paying big money for bandwidth thinking their website was generating that traffic.
He found another pirated UBB on the site of another substantial corporation. Turns out this employee had pocketed the purchase fee for every piece of software that corporation had ever "bought" and loaded a warez O/S and other software on every workstation in the corporation. Cost the company thousands to buy legit software. Think that guy still has a job?
He found a pirated UBB with the copyright removed on a website owned by a company who's offices are very high up in the Empire State Building. This company had paid a web development company to build a website and include a custom message board solution. Boy were they surprised to find out it was neither custom nor licensed. Cost them a grand to buy a license and remove the copyright and powered by legitimately. Yep, another head rolled.
So think about this. That middle instance had many many employees. How much do you think this corporation lost in terms of time and money when they had to go and purchase all of that software? These warez sites hurt the consumer many ways. Software manufacturers have to figure the loss into their prices. Corporations such as that have to go purchase software at today's prices, not the prices they would have paid had they purchased it legitimately when the software was installed. And who paid the loss on that? Not the dope they caught. He had no money to give, it was all gone. You did, the consumer.
Think about it.
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"There is no spoon" is gone.
