The company has every right to send an infringement invoice, the infringing party also has every right to ignore said invoice and try their chance in court.
They have every right to send a notice as I said, myself. It is the fine that I believe is unreasonable regardless of whether it is explicitly part of CERN's contract with the company.
Which didn't cover the student's usage.
No, but then, it wasn't CERN who downloaded and used a pirated copy, was it?
had likely breached CERN policy and was possibly a hazard to CERN's computer systems.
They said flat out that he violated their computing policy, so they can take away his computing privileges, but paying a CHF30K "fine" and sending him the bill?
They have every right to send a notice as I said, myself. It is the fine that I believe is unreasonable regardless of whether it is explicitly part of CERN's contract with the company.
Which didn't cover the student's usage.
No, but then, it wasn't CERN who downloaded and used a pirated copy, was it?
had likely breached CERN policy and was possibly a hazard to CERN's computer systems.
They said flat out that he violated their computing policy, so they can take away his computing privileges, but paying a CHF30K "fine" and sending him the bill?