I'm thinking it's been something like $7.95 per month per radio, but rounded off to a yearly 'update' payment. Still ridiculous, of course. They should be opening an investigation into Motorola to see just how much money they're getting across your country.
I was working for a fairly large police department, and our mobile data terminals (MDTs) were not Y2K compliant. They were 386's running Windows 3, I can't remember if it was Windows for Workgroups, and Moto told us they wouldn't roll over properly and would cost on the order of $300+ per terminal to update, and we had over 1000 cars.
After researching further, we learned that when the officers logged on to our dispatch system that it downloaded the correct date/time from the Unisys mainframe, overriding
Once upon a time, you could just buy a scanner and listen in on what the police are up to. They didn't like that, so they went to encrypted radios, and they give access to the system to cherry-picked journalists that won't hold their feet to the fire. The whole reason they even have radios that need updating is to keep us from keeping tabs on their misdeeds.
Copyright infringement is neither theft nor a crime according to everything I read here.
In the US, copyright infringement is a civil offense, and I believe it is the same in Canada. So it doesn't make much sense that he was arrested for that.
According to TFA, the actual criminal charges are for other things, including fraud and unauthorized use of a computer. Most likely they are just piling on charges to coerce him into a plea bargain.
A certain company is bilking governments and the taxpayers. Hmmm.
I'm thinking it's been something like $7.95 per month per radio, but rounded off to a yearly 'update' payment. Still ridiculous, of course. They should be opening an investigation into Motorola to see just how much money they're getting across your country.
After researching further, we learned that when the officers logged on to our dispatch system that it downloaded the correct date/time from the Unisys mainframe, overriding
Once upon a time, you could just buy a scanner and listen in on what the police are up to. They didn't like that, so they went to encrypted radios, and they give access to the system to cherry-picked journalists that won't hold their feet to the fire. The whole reason they even have radios that need updating is to keep us from keeping tabs on their misdeeds.
Copyright infringement is neither theft nor a crime according to everything I read here.
In the US, copyright infringement is a civil offense, and I believe it is the same in Canada. So it doesn't make much sense that he was arrested for that.
According to TFA, the actual criminal charges are for other things, including fraud and unauthorized use of a computer. Most likely they are just piling on charges to coerce him into a plea bargain.