I have read here before that any version marked Corporate is pirated. One of the moderators on another forum I am a member of posted a screen shot of his work station. Is he using pirated software?
It would appear that he is, yes; there is no āCorporateā Rhino from usā¦
-Pascal
Thanks Pascal. The forum I mention takes a very dim view of pirated softwareā¦.I will pass it onto one of the other moderators who is a regular here as well.
perhaps closing down these US sites would be a good start: http://www.ioffer.com/search/items/Rhinoceros+5
Or have a report abuse page !
Wowā¦ Used to be able to find this stuff on darknet bbās and warez sites back in the day, but to see whatās basically a pirate eBay is an eye-openerā¦ 
Those are some creative prices!
It might be worth capturing the IP address of corporate users - and taking some of them to court !
What a scam !
Iād be far more interested in getting at the sellers rather than the buyers - but that is the hard part, because often they are not in some country where they can be touchedā¦
However, one should also go after the host sites like ioffer, as THEY are in the US and AFAIK it is also illegal to host sales of stolen goodsā¦
āMitch
These sites always win and will not close down - as they hide behind the seller:
In order to substantially comply with the takedown notice provisions set forth at 17 U.S.C. Section 512(c) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (āDMCAā), please forward an email to copyright@ioffer.com with the following information:
- Identification of the specific material that is allegedly being infringed (for instance, copyright registration number or other documentation regarding the titles you claim to own or represent);
- Identification of the allegedly infringing or unauthorized material you seek to have removed or disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit iOffer to locate the material (i.e., specific item numbers or URLs of individual listings);
- A statement that you have a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the rights owner, its agent, or the law;
- A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed; and
- Information reasonably sufficient to permit iOffer to contact you, such as an address and telephone number (in addition to email) in the event a counter-notification is received.
KeithRās URL should be deleted.
Yes, that will solve everything. And whilst we are at it lets all bury our heads in the sand.
Great idea !
This is actually very good advice. I have sent out two or three DMCA takedown notices (from copied designs that were offered for sale) and received immediate results of deletion.
However, the sites I contacted were legit, so they were motivated to comply and avoid legal penalties. This āiofferā site may be mostly scammers and pirates, so they probably donāt care ā but its always worth a shot. The DMCA form is pretty simple and boilerplate. I filled it out in 5 minutes.
UPDATE: I did a search for photoshop and after effects on the site in question. There is ZERO software listings. This tells me that Adobe has had success. I encourage McNeel to defend their IP vigorously as well.
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I also did a bit of a search for Adobe and Autodesk, and there are several that come up telling me that the two companies may not have had much luck. (A search for CS6 has a few results)
Even AutoCAD āwith a 3 year licenseā, Rhino āCorporate Editionā, etc
Barry.
hey all, that is a cracked copy, and embarrassing as it sounds it has caught me with my pants down. Some time back I was sold a copy of of a VERY expensive jewellery design program (of which I own two copies) that uses rhino as a base, and i let that programs Australian representative know about it. As it turned out the program did not workā¦ (i install onto a spare laptop i travel with)
Scrrenshot above taken from said laptop whilst sitting on a train whipping up a grasshopper script just for fun.
it appears to have overwritten my copy licence and even after removing it that persistsā¦ registry wipe required.
By now if anyone was interested that will have checked and seen i own various licences.
my discourse with this representative travels over many years, and yer our forum has a very distinct distaste for cracked software, and we have shut down any user we think is using it.
My own apologies for not picking up on thisā¦
peace out!
(if anyone here wishes to discuss this any further msg me please)
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I have never downloaded or purchased pirated software but know a few that have suffered the consequences of blurred code, viruses, malware and the like that often is embedded in those miserable come ons. Keep clear and besides I am quite happy to support the employees of a company I admire for its product, especially when Iām able to create with their product something I can sell.
Hello there. I have no clue if it is a pirated or not but I have paid Rs 2000 to a person I brought my laptop from for the same software.
And apart from this, I got my query resolved.
oh, come on, this site sells halogene operation lights for 8k dollars as well as gucci children shirtsā¦that must be a serious siteā¦and Iām pretty sure āRhino Corporateā comes with some parasite wormā¦
Unless I got it all wrong, as far as I can tell, iOffer is just an auction site - they donāt actually sell anything themselves, individual people can create accounts and put up anything for sale - like eBay. They just take a percentage of any transaction.
So anyone can put up anything they want, including pirate software copies and nonexistent hardwareā¦
Apparently it was shut down in 2019, but it seems to be back up again, under who knows what ownership. TrustPilot rating 1.6 (Bad) iOffer Reviews | Read Customer Service Reviews of www.ioffer.com
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I donāt get it. Why would the site be shut down instead of taken measures against the seller of the crack? wouldnāt that be more effective?
However, Rhino is really not expensive but great and itās a pity thereās people prefering to get potentially scammed instead of paying the really affordable licence.