CID crackdowns on pirated software users

5 Dec 2010

The Anti-Piracy and Counterfeit Unit, recently established at the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Sri Lanka Police carried out a series of raids on an international group of companies suspected of infringing the intellectual property rights of Business Software Alliance members. Amongst the pirated and unlicensed software were those from Adobe, Autodesk and Microsoft. The use of pirated and unlicensed software in businesses is a criminal offense under the Intellectual Property Law No.36 of 2003.