[zubiaur]

Everywhere where they may be a shadow data science team. And that's how they get you. One has to be very careful to install the Open Source portions. They make no effort to make the boundary obvious. If one does not, IT will get a call asking for licensing money.

[throwaway3646]

Can confirm, this is exactly what happened. They demand ridiculous back payments unless you buy multiple-year licenses. It would be trivial for them to require an account to use the main channel, but they deliberately make it easy to accidentally use it. If you have to use it, make sure to DNS block anaconda.com (.org seems to be fine), but even better, just avoid them like the plague.

[gonzalohm]

How are they going to find out though?

[zubiaur]

They have a form where they ask for an email before giving the download link. My guess is that + a bit of telemetry.

[throwaway3646]

This will also happen if you use condaforge, which can be downloaded freely. Condaforge will also download from the main channel if the recipe requires it.

[gonzalohm]

You can bypass that

[throwaway3646]

By checking IP, I'm guessing

[gonzalohm]

I work from home and even if I didn't, how are they going to link an IP to a company