Digitize CAD Drawings for $4/hr

Once in a while, junk email is interesting, such as this one from Nanjing, China (I've edited out extraneous text):

We are a CAD/GIS services company based in China. We have 40 CAD draftsmen. We can act as an extended drafting office without your incurring additional overhead cost.

We convert complex and dense drawings into precise "ready to use" CAD vector files. Our CAD group is specially adept at AutoCAD ArcInfo, Arc CAD, Arc View, CAD Overlay, CAD Tracer.

Small urgent jobs can be delivered within 2-4 days, larger jobs within 7 working days. Our manpower works in three shifts - round the clock:

1st shift - 6:45 a.m - 2:30 p.m
2nd shift - 2:30 p.m - 10:15 p.m
3rd shift - 10:15 p.m - 6:15 p.m

We charge only US$4 per hour and also we do free sample work for you.

I wonder if they use pirated software?

Comments

I suppose you could ask if they use pirated or licensed software. But you couldn't prove it one way or the other. Still, the DWG files created would be the same in any event.

[csven]

On my trips overseas, when I asked once, I was told that the company purchased the harddrive with the CAD application on it. Not sure why when they could download and get the crack. I suspect there's some kind of assurance that there's no spyware or virus when purchased in this way. Or that the application won't self-destruct as some online versions have done (e.g. a supposedly-cracked version of Alias 9 reportedly did this, iirc).