The company owner/executive should decide (Score 1)

I'm not dealing with the software piracy, but to some extents the problems we face here are similar. The point is, that even tough it's unethical and illegal, the company execs/owners may decide to proceed anyway, because as stated before, the risk of being caught is far lower that the profit gained. In this case, passing the buck is very much okay with me, especially in environment, where you have to become a pirate if you'd like to be competitive... The extra benefit in the business I work, is that the head office managers gets and extra argument, when they need to squeeze something out of the branch offices.