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BSA 'piracy' Report Dismissed As Scaremongering
News The level of software piracy remains unacceptably high," said Siobhan Carroll, a BSA regional manager, in a statement. The Business Software Alliance (BSA) urged the UK government on Wednesday to take tougher action against copyright violation to...
[May 19, 2005, 12:45]
BSA 'piracy' Report Dismissed As Scaremongering
Talkback The BSA needs to take a LONG HARD DEEP LOOK at Microsoft before they start accusing other people of Piracy it has to be said Microsoft have STOLEN more code from more people than any other single company and what is more it is WELL documented out...
[May 20, 2005, 11:50]
BSA Earns $2.2m In Annual Anti-piracy Sweep
News The BSA claims that 22 percent of all commercial software licenses used in the United States have not been paid for, costing the industry more than $6.5bn annually. The BSA plans to use the proceeds to fund educational initiatives, such as its...
[October 13, 2004, 13:05]
BSA 'piracy' Report Dismissed As Scaremongering
Talkback The BSA keep telling us how much more the economy would have without Piracy.wrong, it would have less.The corporate buyers would consider the cheaper alternatives ( look at Linux Apache) and go for that, with a workforce fully conversent with a...
[December 9, 2005, 12:40]
BSA Offers $1m US 'piracy' Bounty
News Although the Business Software Alliance's (BSA) US operation ordinarily offers a maximum of $500,000 (£248,056) for "qualified reports" of illegal software use in business, it is doubling that figure from July to October of this year in order to...
[July 4, 2007, 15:56]
BSA 'piracy' Report Dismissed As Scaremongering
Talkback The BSA has long put the interesting of Microsoft ahead of it's other members, most notably Novell, often forcing violators to replace illegal copies of competing software with MS products. MS (through BSA) needs to keep minds turned away from the...
[May 19, 2005, 14:09]
BSA 'piracy' Report Dismissed As Scaremongering
Talkback "Everything the EU does is about opening competition," seems to me one of the most ignorant statements they could possibly make. They simply havent researched the full effects of that they want done at all.
[June 1, 2005, 1:27]
BSA 'piracy' Report Dismissed As Scaremongering
Talkback so the value of unlicensed software went up from £820 to £1bn between '03 and '04. I wonder how much the average price of new software releases went up over the same period?
[May 19, 2005, 13:15]
BSA 'piracy' Report Dismissed As Scaremongering
Talkback Not so for software companies (who already are overprotected to the extreme by laws and what not) who gratefully sponsor vicious bloodhounds like the BSA to find and exploit whatever legal loophole they can find while lobbying one ignorant...
[May 23, 2005, 23:13]
BSA 2005 Global Software Piracy Study
White Papers Yet, losses due to piracy increased from $29 billion to $33 billion. These are among key findings of an independent global software piracy study released by the Business Software Alliance and conducted by global technology research leader IDC.
[November 19, 2005, 0:00]
BSA Offers £10,000 Bounty For Software Pirates
News The problem of piracy is down to lax management, the BSA claims. In the run up to Thursday's announcement, the BSA conducted a survey asking respondents what would encourage them to inform on business software piracy.
[November 3, 2000, 13:12]
Auction Sites Implicated In Illegal Software
News The Business Software Alliance (BSA) claimed a major victory in its ongoing battle against piracy Thursday, recovering tens of thousands of pounds worth of illegal software in a raid last week. The BSA says that worldwide piracy costs the software...
[November 23, 2000, 15:22]
Anti-piracy Team Checks P2P Sites
News The action was prompted by the high rates of Internet-based piracy in the region, which is beginning to rival more traditional methods such as illegal discs, said Jeffrey Hardee, BSA vice president and regional director, Asia Pacific.
[June 5, 2003, 10:18]
Slashing Software Prices 'would Not Stop Piracy'
News Price cuts are not the way to curb software piracy, says a senior executive from anti-piracy group the Business Software Alliance (BSA). The BSA believes that the best way to combat software piracy is to effect long-term change by continuously...
[July 3, 2003, 11:57]
Software Piracy Drops - Report
News According to BSA's report, the nation's piracy rate dropped 2 percentage points in 2002 compared with 2001, to 23 percent. BSA also reported that some 37 organisations handed down more than $3.1m (£1.9m) in piracy-related settlements as a result of...
[August 6, 2003, 8:50]
Software Piracy Slows Growth, Says Industry Group
News The study, commissioned by the BSA and conducted by IDC, found that in general, nations with the lowest piracy rates had the largest IT sectors, as measured as a share of the countries' gross domestic product (GDP).
[April 2, 2003, 12:00]
Ebay Software Pirate Faces Sentence At The Old Bailey
News Lewisham Council Trading Standards and the Business Software Alliance (BSA), an international anti-piracy organisation, conducted a joint investigation into 23-year-old Bilal Khan's activities and discovered that he had been running an illegal...
[July 4, 2003, 10:30]
Staff Shop Bosses For Using Pirate Software
News The settlement case coincides with the release of BSA's annual piracy figures, which finds that the UK software industry lost £346m last year due to business software piracy. The BSA reserves the right to enforce legal action on any company found...
[May 24, 2001, 15:58]
UK Firms 'forget' To Pay £1bn For Software
News Mike Newton, a BSA spokesman, told ZDNet UK that companies generally do not mean to evade paying for licences; rather, they simply forget because of a lack of asset management procedures. According to the BSA, there are long- and short-term...
[July 7, 2004, 15:30]
BSA Explains Its Ethos
News Microsoft may be a bigger company than many of the other BSA members, but they all have this piracy problem in common. Only one member from a tech company sits on the BSA board; only one member from each company sits on the BSA committee.
[August 3, 2004, 14:45]
