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[Hi]

This computer program is protected by copyright law and international treaties.  Unauthorized
reproduction or distribution of this program, or any portion of it, may result in severe civil and criminal
penalties, and will be prosecuted to the maximum extent possible under the law.  

This computer program which has been installed and used on this computer is in violation of the software
terms of agreement (sections: 3, 7 and 8) , as well as being in violation of copyright law.  This computer
was logged over the internet with this computer program being accessed and used illegally.  The
information in this notice has been transmitted over the internet to the company SWIFTDOG for
immediate investigation into copyright infringement/software piracy claim(s).  Information including your
IP ADDRESS, ISP INFORMATION and SERIAL NUMBER entered have been obtained.

An individual with direct access to this computer has installed this copyright protected computer program
and has intentionally entered an illegally obtained serial number, and/or has applied a software patch to
circumvent the protection mechanism(s) of this computer program to gain unrestricted access to the
computer program.  The illegal serial number entered and date/time of this incident is noted above.

Copies of this information have been transmitted over the internet to the company SWIFTDOG in regards
to this matter; in order to protect our intellectual property rights as well as to open a case to investigate
this matter.  Removal of this computer program does not limit our legal rights or claims.  All copyright
violations are investigated with the data we have obtained.  Intentional criminal copyright infringement is
a violation of international law and is punishable with a fine of up to $250,000 USD and/or imprisonment.  

You are advised to obtain a legal license of the software by purchasing a valid license; as you are in
direct violation of the software terms of agreement.  Removal of this software piracy notice can be
obtained at our website (www.swiftdog.com) and/or by following instructions included in the software
terms of agreement included with this software (license.txt).

This is the message I got after trying to pirate something. I have uninstalled the program, dissconnected to my network and am currently connected to my neibors network, and am really worried. Have I meen caught? What is going on? According to this message, if I buy the program, a program I was only trying out and will probably never actually use, I will be safe. Should I buy the program?

PLEASE HELP ME! I'M REALLY SCARED RIGHT NOW!

[meangreenie]

its sounds like crap to me, just a scare tactic. What programme was you installing ?

If you are really worried change your nic address and router one too.. you can claim someone was spoofing your mac ... though i seriously doubt you will hear anything

[Hi]

It was called PC thrust.

[meangreenie]

i would just ignore it

but as i said if your worried change your nic  and macs and force an ip change... usually (ipconfig /release.. power off modem for 5 minutes, power back up the ipconfig /renew) does the trick ..... then remove every trace of any swiftdog crap of  your pc (including temp/internet files, registry ect)

[Shinster]

Well, just hearing about it scares me. I hope you work it out.

[Hi]

I'll get rid of the temporary internet files, How can I get it out of my regestry?

[fstarter]

This happend to me a few years back. The regestration fee was only £6 I paid just incase. Never used the program it was crap .

As soons as I put the pirate license in it connected straight to the net and sent the message out.

It could have been the company put the product out on P2P to catch people who would try it scare them and you pay the fee for a shit program.

It`s up to you what you want to do but if it`s a small fee pay it for piece of mind.

[meangreenie]

I'll get rid of the temporary internet files, How can I get it out of my regestry?

start->run-> type 'regedit' in the runbox   ... then just text search for keywords

[Hi]

It wasn't a P2P download. It was Rapidshare.

So, what do you suggest? Should I buy the program? $12 is a fair amount for me because I've been keeping a budget, and I only just fit everything I want into it. The simple $12 will ruin it. I'll ruin my budget if I'm really in trouble, but I'd hate to waist the money on something unnessesary.

[meangreenie]

i dunno much about law, but i serously doubt they could demand money off anyone for exchange in not reporting you and not be breaking a law themselves

[DeVS]

You downloaded a pirated copy of software and it told you to send money or else? LOL! Why would you send money? People put viruses and trojans and all type of crap into pirated software and you are actually considering that 1: this is legit and not a trojan type virus or 2: they could actually do anything at all to you.

Turn off you internet, unistall the program and all traces of it and reinstall it and see if you get that same message. If you do I would not worry about it and if you don't I still would not worry about it. Bottom line, don't worry bout it,lol.

[kkan]

its a load of crap trust me on this one a quick google will confirm this for you too  

pay nothing to no one uninstall whatever it was you installed using add remove programs and then download spybot search and destroy (this removes any things like that etc) and install it update it and then run the scan and remove anything it finds  

[Hi]

Okay. You have made me feel much better. Thanks.

[Perseid]

You cannot be arrested for pirating one program. So if they did send in your personal info the feds would not be knocking on your door.

If they tried to sue you they only have your IP address so they would need to subpoena your name and address from your ISP. In order to do this they would need a certain amount of evidence that you did indeed pirate their software. The fact that their program phoned home and claimed your IP address stole their crap is very weak evidence and probably not enough for a judge to grant that subpoena. So, in other words, it would be so difficult to sue you that they wouldn't bother. But it is easy to scare people and that's all they're trying to do.

Don't buy their program unless you like their program. If you DO like it go ahead and buy it.

[darkuni]

Relax.  The FBI and other governmental agencies have FAR BIGGER FISH to fry than coming after your shareware stealing ass

The worst this company could do is blacklist your IP on some server that would prevent you from using their software (personally, I'd rather have someone using a pirated copy of my software than using my competitors, but what do I know?).  

This is a standard scare tactic.  I always wondered why they bothered because it doesn't scare anyone.  I guess I was wrong.