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BSA Use Photo without Permission in Campaign

posted by LaminatorX on Wednesday March 26 2014, @05:27PM   Printer-friendly
from the couldn't-happen-to-a-nicer-bunch-of-people dept.

lhsi writes:

Torrentfreak has announced an amusing case of being hoisted by one's own petard:

The Business Software Alliance, a trade group representing Adobe, Apple and Microsoft, has been caught using a "stolen" photo in one of their anti-piracy campaigns. The group is running various Facebook ads to convince people to snitch on pirates, but this effort has backfired terribly.

After being contacted about the use of a photo of a pot of gold by Torrentfreak, the BSA didn't respond and within an hour the advert had mysteriously disappeared.

 
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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by TK on Wednesday March 26 2014, @05:42PM

    by TK (2760) on Wednesday March 26 2014, @05:42PM (#21615)

    When I read stories like this one, I like to imagine that the designer that made the ads was well aware of the source of the content, but went ahead anyway because they knew the bad publicity it would cause. In my imaginary scenario, the lowly designer grunt is merely working for the beast to pay the bills, and has, at most, no love for their cause.

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