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Hi All, Thanks for the replies. Fransisco and Kris, I totally agree with you. There is only one catch, or two. If you would bring it up casually or as a concern, imagine the reaction you would get. When there is no intention of buying legal software, it could easily be interpreted as blackmail, even in the friendliest way of discussing. I also wouldn't buy an answer like: we're working on it, we're struggling a bit, if that clearly isn't the case. You'll soon find yourself looking for other clients / another job. But that doesn't matter in the end. I ended my collaboration with them. It seems I wasn't the only one feeling this way about the company and people acted on it. The software has been reported, which I can say was an eyeopener for me. I would like to share that none of the software companies seem to even care about this. There was only one reply from the Foundry to ask if the ArchViz company would be interested in purchasing the software indicating a slight objection of the use of their software illegally. Autodesk probably still likes to use the company's renders as promotion for their software, so no reaction from them. That really changed my opinion about Autodesk. I know they are also able to track the use of illegal software, like Valerostudio says, but I'm surprised they won't act on it. Especially when it's been reported. Think it would make a difference to fine or at least let bigger companies that can easily afford it, pay the price for using software. Maybe that would have prevent to turn to their 'great' new subscription policy. But that's a another issue. Other companies like Adobe or Chaosgroup didn't care either. So bottom line: it doesn't make a difference to report it seems. Not sure now about Karma will get them, Valerostudio.

Hi All, Don't know if anyone of you ever came to a point where you wanted to decide on reporting illegal software from a company. I am kind of now in that situation. I have been working in the field of Architectural Visualization for over 10 years as a freelancer and lately I've been asked for a job by on of the bigger visualization companies. This seems to be a company that charges more than enough for their products, hence my surprise I found out every piece of software they are using is illegal. V-ray, the full list of Autodesk products, complete Adobe suites and an immense library were all to be downloaded and used illegal. As a freelancer I know it is hard to keep your software up to date. And with worse and better years I have been able to upgrade my software or invest in Libraries or Plugins. This is a company that not only has the money but seems to need only a month of work from each person to be able to afford a full range of products on a work on that persons workstation. This to me seems unfair. They are obviously taking jobs away from other offices around the world. Other bigger offices might have been struggling or even had to close the because of the economical situation which had a major impact on everybody in this business, especially when they had to maintain their software subscriptions/licenses. So, I don't know what your thoughts are on this or have you ever been in a similar situation? Please advise.