Given the United States ’ intolerance for copyright infringementandthe piraters that disseminate it , you ’d think Uncle Sam would be a little more keen on score indisputable that his men were work by the book themselves . As it reverse out , a whole mess of computers running unaccredited , illegal copies of Windows 7 belong to none other thanthe US Army itself .
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The position was fetch to light whena soldier stationed in a US Army base in Qatar sent Torrent Freakphotographic substantiation of the Army ’s obviously loose licensing policy . And this surely would n’t be the first clip the armed forces find itself in the midst of copyright drama ; just a few week ago , the US had to pay $ 50 million in a closure for its use of pirated military logistics software package . The situation in this case is , admittedly , not quite as dangerous , with just 18 computers at the soldier ’s education center start the illegal software .
That does n’t necessarily mean this is an isolated incident , though . Even after the soldier told his direct Lake Superior , nothing seems to have changed . [ Torrent Freak ]
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