About Software Piracy:
If you suspect any of our products are being used in violation of license agreements
or copyright laws, please
report it for further investigation. IDAutomation has, and will, take legal
action against all counterfeiters. You will be rewarded if damages are collected
and you can remain anonymous.
Known Barcode Counterfeits:
To date, IDAutomation has found several companies or products that violate IDAutomation's
copyrights. If you or your company uses any of the products listed below, IDAutomation
urges you to properly license these products through IDAutomation. IDAutomation
provides a discount in most cases for this type of licensing.
Known counterfeits include the following:
- 32tech . com, barcode fonts
- BarcodeONE . com, barcode fonts
- Brainstorm, specifically brainstorm.ttf
- BusinessRefinery . com, Java related barcode generation programs
- Grandzebu . net and the OpenBarcode project, specifically the code128 fonts
- Other companies and products would also be on this list, however, prior
settlements and agreements prevent IDAutomation from making these public.
Any of the following may help indicate a counterfeit:
- If a company distributes our component with their software application and
they do not have a statement somewhere in the start up screen, help about menu
or in the manual that specifies IDAutomation as the provider of the component
that is bundled with the application.
- If a company sells one of our products directly and it does not come from
our store.
- If several similarities are found between our product and another, such
as similar function names and syntax.
How do you know you are dealing with a reputable
company? The following checks may help:
- Check the US Copyright Office and
the Trademark Office to search for the company
name and their products. Reputable companies will register their trademarks
and copyrights. Be suspicious if a company does not protect its own intellectual
property.
- Check the company's contact information and phone number. Beware of any
company that does not list their address and phone number on their website.
Perform a whois search on their domain name and verify the address. Use
maps.google.com or
mapquest.com to obtain a satellite image of
the address. One company we researched appeared large on the Internet; however,
the satellite image revealed they were operating out of a mobile home.
- Check to make sure the company has registered their company name as a
trademark. Additionally, if the company
uses the registered mark ® and does not have a record on file with the
Trademark Office, you should not purchase
products from them. Use of the registered mark ® without an approved registration
on file is illegal.
- Make sure the company is a member of an organization that represents consumers
such as the Better Business Bureau and make sure this can be verified. IDAutomation.com
is a member of the Better Business Bureau, which can be verified by clicking
on the BBB Online logo in the top right side of the screen. When you verify
this by clicking on the logo, make sure the information that follows is really
from the consumer organization by looking at the URL address.
- In the shopping cart of the company, check the SSL certificate's "Issued
to:" and "Issued by:" fields. Verify it is valid and issued from a trusted source.

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