Enterprise in Jiangsu fined of 800,000yuan for using pirated software

Recently the Suzhou Intermediate People's Court in Jiangsu Provice held a trial on the case in which Autodesk Inc. sued Viscount Industries (Kunshan) Co. Ltd. for copyright infringement. The court ruled that Viscount Industries should compensate a total of RMB 69,400 to Autodesk Inc. for its loss and reasonable expense on the case, and pay the costs of the action.

In addition, the Jiangsu Copyright Administration imposed a fine of RMB 800,000 upon Viscount Industries, ordered it to immediately remove the infringing software of Pro-engineer2001, MasterCAM 9.1, AutoCAD2004 and AutoCAD2005 from the computers.

In April 2006, complaint to the Jiangsu Copyright Administration indicated that several computers owned by Viscount Industries were installed with pirated software. The Jiangsu Copyright Administration, in cooperation with the local police and the Administration for Industry and Commerce, inspected the company. They found that four computers in Viscount Industries were installed with unauthorized software of Pro-engineer2001, MasterCAM 9.1, AutoCAD2004 and AutoCAD2005, involving a value of RMB 2.7 million.