software is as good as any other. must be purchased regularly.
made the necessary premise, it must also be added that extortion is crime as much as the theft, therefore the action described above deserves the same bias reserved to those who use illegal software.
to ask 50,000 euros as a "good" solution to the installation of any pirate software is pure extortion and a toned judge would certainly express themselves in these terms. the aggressive and intimidating attitude is already proof of itself.
There are so many metropolitan legends on the gdf that is "sended" by someone at someone's house... are legends: gdf does not move on indications of companies that boast supposed credits, but independently or on indication of the inquirent magistrate.
Guy accuses me of using his software unduly? Well, try it. What brings as proof, a list of ip and mac address? And what proof is this? any Trojan is able to read the mac of millions of pcs, while the ip is a public information that any portal receives from all the pcs that access you.
those above are not direct evidence (i.e., to immediately demonstrate a fact without any logical operation), but indirect evidence, those that we all know as "individuals". a clue doesn't prove anything. only if the clues are numerous, serious, precise and agreeing, the judge (only him) can arrive at the presumption of crime. from here to a condemnation the road is really long.
the test would be if, during an inspection visit of the gdf for different verifications, inspectors found the software installed, or maybe someone at the time of its use. possession of the only ip and mac address can not even remotely be considered evidence, but it could be considered a simple clue, useful to constitute a legal presumption in case it was supported by other precise and agreeing serious clues, otherwise it is not worth anything.
In this case, if the company is challenged to have indebtedly used in a specific period such software falls, and from the analysis of the accounting data of the same it turns out that in the period in question it has turnover plans attributable to such software, signed contracts that previewed the delivery of files produced with the same, and perhaps the testimony of an employee who under oath confirms to have used it, here, these are serious precise and agreeing clues that they can convince judge.
in case that such software has been installed to... lightness, but not actually used, the extortors who ask 50,000 euros to settle "good" the question, deserve to be condemned for extortion, causing worse than the worst tirapiedi to comparison of which fabrizio crown can be defined as an amateur.