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Singapore police bag $1.14m in pirated software

...to a software industry lobbying group. In a statement on Tuesday, the Business Software Alliance (BSA) said the Singapore Police Force seized 10 copies of... Read more

8 June, 2011 by Liau Yun Qing

BSA: Open standards will 'increase e-government costs'

...costs rise because it has chosen to get behind open standards, the Business Software Alliance has argued. The BSA has reacted strongly to a Cabinet... Read more

1 March, 2011 by David Meyer

Kaspersky leaves BSA over US piracy bill

Russian security company Kaspersky is to quit the Business Software Alliance over the group's support of a contentious US anti... Read more

5 December, 2011

BSA secret agenda: open source saves the world

The Business Software Alliance, that concerned body in the US which bangs the drum... Read more

8 September, 2011

Cabinet Office: no lobby influence on open standards

...ComputerWeekly said in January it had unearthed evidence that Microsoft and the Business Software Alliance (BSA) had successfully pressurised the UK government into withdrawing its... Read more

9 February, 2012 by Tom Espiner

Wikileaks: Microsoft aided former Tunisian regime

Diplomatic cables published via Wikileaks show that Microsoft agreed to train Tunisian law enforcement officers in IT as a way to convince the government to drop an open-source mandate Read more

5 September, 2011 by David Meyer

Hargreaves response: a load of BSA

...regime was published, I received not one, but two comments from the Business Software Alliance. "The BSA has prepared comment outlining their reaction to the... Read more

18 May, 2011

UK must modernise copyright laws, report urges

The government-commissioned Hargreaves review has been published, calling for copyright exemptions for private copies and parodies, and urging resistance against patents for software and business processes Read more

18 May, 2011 by David Meyer

Europe backs open standards in interoperability drive

...Commission's stance goes some way to defying the advice of the Business Software Alliance (BSA), which had claimed a preference for open specifications would... Read more

16 December, 2010

European Parliament passes pro-Acta resolution

...response to the finalised Acta text has been mixed. On 6 October, Business Software Alliance (BSA) chief Robert Holleyman said the signatories were "declaring to... Read more

25 November, 2010

Lobbyists clash over open standards in Europe

...Foundation Europe has launched a strong defence of open standards, after the Business Software Alliance tried to tell the European Commission that a preference for... Read more

18 October, 2010

Microsoft cracks down on 25 UK counterfeiters

...5bn) in profits in 2009, according to a report released by the Business Software Alliance and IDC that was released in May. The study estimated... Read more

6 July, 2010 by Ben Woods

Business Software Alliance tackles online scams

The Business Software Alliance continues to battle distribution of counterfeit software on peer-to... Read more

6 October, 2008 by Elinor Mills

Illegal-software crackdown targets Glasgow

...during a 30-day amnesty last November on unlicensed software by the Business Software Alliance (BSA), an anti-counterfeit-software group. But now the BSA... Read more

8 February, 2008 by Nick Heath

BSA targets small businesses with SAM site

The Business Software Alliance (BSA) has launched a Web site to help small businesses... Read more

12 December, 2003 by Munir Kotadia

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