>> Why refuse?
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>> It's hardly a magic command which will make a bad one go away.
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Generally I have had reasonable encounters with the police.
However, the police sided with a major (now defunct) US company and refused to investigate their crimes. In short US company pirated my software. I had no contract with them, it was out and out theft. I used a credit agency to pre-populate data that cost me a few hundred pounds a month which was covered by the licensed users and agreements on usage levels.
Then I got a bill for several thousand in one month. This American company was putting all their cases though my software without any permission so I cut them off. Didn’t even know who it was at the time. I never sold them the software or any licences. They must have copied it from a floppy disc at the time and got the passwords from an ex-employee of my customer.
I reported it to the local police but they had no clues.
The American company had the balls to complain that I was cutting access to their files and used a major police service to do their dirty work and even employed ex-senior members of that force as security advisors.
So I got arrested at some ungodly hour by police who broke my front door without ringing the bell or knocking and terrifying my family, home ransacked and then charged for a computer misuse crime for trying to protect my fledgling business from an unknown thief that deliberately pirated my software and stole software services that I had to pay for!
I did have a laugh when the American company collapsed.
So funnily enough, whilst I have time for the BIB who are polite and courteous and take a legitimate and legal no for an answer, if I meet the other type I will do my upmost not to cooperate!
Last edited by: zippy on Sat 16 May 20 at 02:16
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