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BSA Targets Small Businesses With SAM Site
Talkback The BSA "free" tools are a bit of trap. It is truely free not "BSA free". Using unlicensed software is theft but never admit this to the BSA. By all means use the guidelines on the site but lets face it; if you are a small business already flooded...
[December 15, 2003, 10:45]
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 Figures Do Not Add Up
Talkback How good of the BSA to not respond in person. They were more then willing to splatter something they like around the globe but they seem to point to someone else when it's time to respond to critics.
[July 1, 2005, 23:52]
BSA Figures Do Not Add Up
Talkback I'm keen to respond to your points, but its not clear in the study on the BSA website (http://www.bsa.org/eupolicy/press/newsreleases/Study-Shows-Importance-of-CII-Patents-for-European-Small-And-Medium-Sized-Companies.cfm) what figures were used...
[July 1, 2005, 19:03]
BSA Targets Small Businesses With SAM Site
News The Business Software Alliance (BSA) has launched a Web site to help small businesses keep track of their software assets and avoid breaking licensing laws through ignorance. According to a survey of small businesses carried out on behalf of the...
[December 12, 2003, 11:55]
BSA Figures Do Not Add Up
Talkback Despite realising this error the BSA decided not to sent out a corrected press release because "none of the stories that appeared that day…quoted the inaccuracy you had identified. Great journalism! You wrote:
[July 1, 2005, 10:19]
BSA Offers Immunity For Copyright Confessors
News The Business Software Alliance (BSA) is urging any users who believe they may be in breach of software licences or copyright to "throw their hands up" and confess their crimes in exchange for immunity from prosecution.
[September 26, 2003, 11:00]
BSA Explains Its Ethos
News Only one member from a tech company sits on the BSA board; only one member from each company sits on the BSA committee. A nonprofit trade group formed by more than a dozen major software makers -- including Microsoft, Adobe Systems and Autodesk...
[August 3, 2004, 14:45]
BSA Explains Its Ethos
Talkback At the back of both the BSA and FAST is the burning desire to get statutory right of inspection / auditing. In some ways this might even be a good thing: After all you can at least negotiate with the Inland Revenue!
[August 6, 2004, 16:33]
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 '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 Figures Do Not Add Up
Talkback It is good to see that someone exposes the BSA's lies/manipulation.and 81% of them rely on patent protection for their businesses. Great article! Businesses relying on patent protection, does not necessarily benefit from patents.
[June 25, 2005, 19:26]
BSA Offers £20k Bounty To Rat On Your Boss
News Anti-software piracy group the Business Software Alliance (BSA) is offering a £20,000 reward to anyone who informs on their employer using illegal or unlicensed software. The BSA already has an online hotline for people to report the use of illegal...
[April 28, 2006, 10:40]
BSA 'piracy' Report Dismissed As Scaremongering
News The Business Software Alliance (BSA) urged the UK government on Wednesday to take tougher action against copyright violation to combat the spiralling rate of unlicensed software. The level of software piracy remains unacceptably high," said Siobhan...
[May 19, 2005, 12:45]
BSA Teams Up With IiS On SAM
News IiS and the Business Software Alliance (BSA) say that they hope to "accelerate the adoption of SAM best practices, in particular supporting ever-wider adoption of standards". IiS was originally formed partly in response to organisations like the...
[June 26, 2007, 17:36]
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 Figures Do Not Add Up
Talkback Very good but what exactly is the BSA paper supposed to be persuasive of in the first place? It is not even a properly conducted survey, as you have discovered, and it is also not correct to interpret it as a measure of opinion, as the BSA appear...
[June 24, 2005, 20:19]
BSA Alert Over Illegal Software On Online Auctions
News Anti-counterfeit software body the Business Software Alliance (BSA), which represents the likes of Adobe, Apple, Microsoft and Symantec, said it has prevented more than 36,000 illegal software products with a combined retail value of around $8m...
[October 3, 2007, 8:53]
BSA Offers £10,000 Bounty For Software Pirates
News The Business Software Alliance (BSA) is offering £10,000 reward for information that helps catch companies guilty of using counterfeit software in the UK, the organisation said Thursday. According to the BSA around one in every four pieces of...
[November 3, 2000, 13:12]
BSA Figures Do Not Add Up
Talkback My original claim in the article was that you have not statistically corrected the patent documentation figure of 20% (which is an important figure as it is widely quoted by the BSA). Please can you clarify how you statistically corrected this...
[July 7, 2005, 10:55]
