Comment BUDDY TURNED FORMER EMPLOYER IN (Score 1) 314
My buddy Javier has recently tunred his employer in for pirating and using software from Macromedia. Macromedia apparently contacted his employer through their legal team and are going to sue him for 30,000 in physical damages and 150,000 in compensatory damages. His boss called him at home at 5 in the morning to let him know that he knew it was him and he was going to take him down with the company and that he was going to have to hire a lawyer and file bankruptcy because he helped his employer install the software.
I was kind of blew away by this. I told him to go talk to a lawyer but he said that he found resources on the web that claim he could not be involved in this because he is a work-at-will employee and it would fall under "Vicarious Liability" as his boss encouraged the use of such pirated software by buying him books and tutorials on how to use the software.
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
I was kind of blew away by this. I told him to go talk to a lawyer but he said that he found resources on the web that claim he could not be involved in this because he is a work-at-will employee and it would fall under "Vicarious Liability" as his boss encouraged the use of such pirated software by buying him books and tutorials on how to use the software.
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
