Krasnoyurchenko Ivan

Krasnoyurchenko Ivan

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2021: One year in prison for using pirated software

At the end of November 2021, the Asbestovsky court of the Sverdlovsk region sentenced the director of UZKO LLC (Ural Boiler Equipment Plant) Ivan Krasnoyurchenko to one year in a general regime colony for using pirated software.

We are talking about the drawing software Compass-3D"," which was installed on the enterprise's computers in 2016. In 2021, OBEP employees came to the company's office and seized three working computers on which they found an unlicensed program.

The rightholder counted the damage over 3 million rubles: one million and 131 thousand rubles for each copy. Ivan Krasnoyurchenko did not agree with such an amount and at first refused to negotiate with the copyright holder company.

The copyright holder for the Compass - 3D program is the Russian company Ascon - Design Systems Ascon). She released the first version of this software back in 1989. According to the portal, UZKO employees reached out to representatives of Ascona and concluded an agreement with them to buy licenses in exchange for refusing claims and signing a settlement agreement.

But suddenly "otherworldly forces" intervened in our interaction. Ascon- Design Systems LLC represented by representatives of Zakusilov I. and Kozubenko Yu. V. stopped communicating, "said Gleb Shimanov, an employee of the enterprise, to the publication.

The director of the UZKO was found guilty under Art. 146 of the Criminal Code ("Copyright infringement," the maximum penalty is 6 years in prison and a fine of 500 thousand rubles or in the amount of salary or other income of the convicted person for a period of up to three years or without it). The representative of the prosecution asked for two years probation, but the judge said that "the correction of Krasnoyurchenko is possible only in real conditions of imprisonment." It is clarified that Krasnoyurchenko left three children at large. One of them with a disability.^[1]

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