Yea the second demand letter with deadline and threat of legal action is the typical protocol. Ignore is still probably what you want to do. But, you should find out what legal data base your country uses to see how many lawsuits they file. Dassault systems business model is probably just to intimidate you into paying a settlement with out any expensive legal action. But some company's can be very litigious and file many suits. Its best to know thy enemy and see how many cases the dates of each case the evidence presented and the result in each case. The profile of the defendant is a consideration as well. Deepening on the size of your business etc. CJCH is license in the UK, can they even litigate in germany? if u have no money, u have nothing to worry about, they cant sue you for what you dont have. If you reply to them you acknowledge that you might have enough money that you need to protect. if they cant verify your company has any money they wont bother filing suit. Did they send letter to Germany address?

Since you are in Germany, there would be a different website you need to find to find court case filings. Stopped chasing going on about 11 weeks now

yea they send alot of letters out threatening law suits hoping to get money. They do have the recourse to file a law suit but chances are they wont. For the USA I know of only 6 relevant cases filed. 6 cases is not that many considering that there is likely many thousands of violators. They likely have no intent to actually sue but are merely threating. If the software is 40k tho, .... its quite a bit more then what i was accused off and it may be worth trying to find out how they deal with those cases

CJCH is the law firm hired by ANSYS to assist with their extortion racket and they work together in these matters. ANSYS wants to settle for the sale of expensive license to close your case. once they're done with you and you still have not bought a license then then turn it over to the lawyers who try to negotiate settlement like a debt collection circus

OO i see Dassault systems as acquired ANSYS. So you are dealing with with same company

yea so, in my case they went after my employer. Then stopped going after my employer and started going after me instead as they suspected me. I did not have the option of not replying as my employer replied and prompted me to reply. I am not sure what the typical settlement demands are for the software package you being accused of using. In my case they wanted me to either buy solid works premium with 1 year subscription which is like 11k USD. Even though I am being accused of using the basic package worth like 4k or 5.8k with subscription taxes etc. The other settlement option they offered was for 5k with no software. You should look up your countries court case filing data base to try and understand how litigious they are. How many case they have filed for similar infringements. The profiles of the accused company's and how those cases ended. In my case Dassault systems had about 6 similar case filings in the past 3 years for all of the USA. Based on my estimates it seems they are going after offenders enmasse and that the 6 cases represent a small percentage of total potential infringement cases. As solid works is a wildly popular software used by many. Just about any collage engineering student has a pirated copy of this. So these were all factors I used in my decision to bounce black ignore. You are dealing with ANSYS and so it is worth trying to understand thy enemy and try to understand their business model in pursuit of these cases. For example the music industry wasted billions of $ with bit torrent law suits to try and make an example of ppl with the goal of scaring the masses to comply. This was not Dassaults business model. Other then the 6 cases they filed (perhaps to make an example out of ppl) they seem to want to shake ppl down for easy license sales and settlement penalty fees.

VPN does create extra plausible deniability. You could have accessed your email from a friends computer. Since all they really have is your email domain name. But if they also have the IP registered to you, then its harder to explain away two coincidences.

damn, what's the software, how much is a license?

yea if u respond to them, you open a can of worms and they wont ever go away. In responding you verify they have your contact details right. In responding you also acknowledge you have enough assets to risk loosing that warrant you to reply in an attempt to settle the matter. Replying only gives them more ammunition then they already have. Its unlikely but possible they file a case. Bounced and blocked been 2+ months since they have tried to reach me …

So they have collected your email address from the monitoring software. Used the domain to connect it to your business. You do not use a VPN? Does your company offer a product or service that could theoretically make use of this Ansys software package?

Dam these ambulance chasers. So did you receive a letter addressed to you? Or did your company receive the letter and they are reaching out to you?

So how did things end for others, just get debt collection emails and calls forever?

Did not seem like recorded usage when reading all the documents. Think everything was settled before any actual trial as they are voluntary dismissed. Cocktail kingdom, seldat distribution, and compu aire was light usage only 1 comp in question.

Looks like the filed like 6 cases last year.

complaint.pdf looks like they dont have much on this one either but still filed ...

TY DX!! I appreciate the comms. Still unsettling that there is a perpetual threat for next 3 years.

Still wonder if they go back to employer to force a response Do u think they would? So how many more attempts u expect them to make, before giving up, years? organiclighrting court case (2).pdf

Gmail does can only block and not bounce but there is browser extension called block sender which sends back a fake bounce message

Blocked and bounced ... had to pay for a special block sender send fake blocks

Has any one here gotten to the point of settlement offers from law clerk?

Well, there is one example complaint that is some what similar. So they coooould if they really want too ... main differences are they suspect business and they have their network info ExampleComplaint (1).pdf

Read all of it already, and all filings

What do you think Andy?

lawyer said i should settle and not ignore. Just did a consult wants 1500$ to write letter

This is correct, that is the complete record of all communications license is non transferable but. If i take this llc i never used for any thing and i purchase it under that then i can sell the llc transferring its assets to new officers.