Pirated CAD Softwareon Flickr

Deelip Menezes has been reporting how Google's social networking site permits the sale of bootleg software -- even of Google's own Sketup Pro software, which isn't free.

Saturday I found that the popular photo sharing site, Flickr, is doing the same. At Flickr's studiowikitecture page, the "photo" is actually an ad selling AutoCAD 2008 for $129.

I filed an Abuse Report with Flickr; now we'll see if they act, and how long it takes.

I had to chuckle at another of Mr Menezes' reports: it seems that some enterprizing people are being reverse-pirates (or is there a better term?). He's found that people are taking free software (Inventor LT, in this case) and selling it for $199!

Update

Flickr responded after 24 hours with a generic response email.

Meanwhile, Google's news clipping service listed this blog item between a pair of pirate sites, one of them run by Google (I've partially censored their URLs):

AutoCAD 2008 $129.95
By News(News)
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Planet News Press - http://XXXXXXXXXXXXXXblogspot.com/

Blogging FloggingPirated CAD Software
By ralph grabowski
Instead, it also offers "AutoCAD 2008 $129.95" -- using the same photo as at the Flickr site mentioned earlier -- as well as entries for "AUTOCAD 2008 READY TO DOWNLOAD" and "Separate yourself from other men."
WorldCAD Access - http://worldcadaccess.typepad.com/blog/

DOWNLOAD AUTOCAD 2008 ONLY $129
By [email protected] (palmaddict)
DOWNLOAD AUTOCAD 2008 ONLY $129. Grateful, I know, for just such compensations,and the Splendid Splinter. For a few dreamy dollars,In a single floral stroke,and the numbed yards will go back undercover.And Mère Chose's square of world, ...
Photos from palmaddict - http://www.flickr.com/photos/XXXXXXXXXXX/

Comments

[Deelip Menezes]

Please let us know whether Flickr takes any action on your report.

BTW, Inventor LT is being sold for $199, not $1000. A thousand would indeed be daylight roberry. 199 seems like twilight robbery.