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Illegal-software Crackdown Targets Glasgow
News Hundreds of businesses in the city escaped punishment during a 30-day amnesty last November on unlicensed software by the Business Software Alliance (BSA), an anti-counterfeit-software group. Glasgow was targeted after the BSA received more reports...
[February 8, 2008, 8:23]
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 $1m US 'piracy' Bounty
News Americans willing to report their employers for using counterfeit software will be able to claim up to $1m (£496,181) in rewards, after the Business Software Alliance announced a three-month promotional bounty.
[July 4, 2007, 15:56]
Microsoft Claims Latest Scalp In War On Counterfeit Software
News The current stage in the campaign against piracy from the Business Software Alliance (BSA) has claimed its latest victim after Manchester based Internet retailer Zoobon was closed down for selling counterfeit Microsoft software.
[December 8, 2005, 16:50]
Auction Sites Implicated In Illegal Software
News The Alliance believes up to ninety percent of software sold on auction sites is counterfeit. Mike Newton, campaign manager at BSA UK, claims that auction site trade in counterfeit software has reached epidemic proportions.
[November 23, 2000, 15:22]
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. In the run up to Thursday's announcement, the BSA conducted a...
[November 3, 2000, 13:12]
Online Auction Sites Face Wrath Of Piracy Busters
News European Internet auction houses face a crackdown on peddling pirated and counterfeit software from the Business Software Alliance (BSA). Head of the BSA Internet Enforcement Program Margo Miller claims auction sites have become a haven for...
[October 19, 2000, 11:42]
Quarter Of Australia's Software Is Counterfeit
News Australia's counterfeit-software rate is dropping, but not as aggressively as some in the industry would like. In comparison, China has a counterfeit-software rate of 82 percent, while globally the average is 35 percent.
[February 19, 2008, 9:57]
Ebay Software Pirate Faces Sentence At The Old Bailey
News His main business was built around selling counterfeit copies of Microsoft, Macromedia and Symantec software. On top of the five piracy and dishonesty charges he has already pleaded guilty to, Khan has agreed to have another 11 offences of...
[July 4, 2003, 10:30]
Piracy Cut Back By Compliance Laws
News New compliance and accounting regulations are helping to drive down the number of firms who use unlicensed and counterfeit software, according to Microsoft. However, while licensing compliance is getting better at the top, Baker said there is still...
[September 24, 2004, 11:50]
Resellers Slam Black Market In Microsoft Software
News Microsoft's UK partners are increasingly concerned about the amount of counterfeit and unlicensed software being sold in the UK reseller channel, which they say is threatening the reseller industry at large.
[September 14, 2005, 14:05]
FBI Helps China Crack Software-counterfeiting Ring
News We're concerned that a number of business customers are putting the business at risk, as counterfeit software has been linked to viruses and spyware," said Alexander. Alexander denied that UK business customers were at risk from Microsoft enforcing...
[July 24, 2007, 14:04]
Government Launches Anti-piracy Plan
News Around half of the nation's 18- to 29-year-olds admit to owning counterfeit products, while 28 percent of 30- to 50-year-olds said they did. The move to deal with counterfeit goods will also deal with those making fake booze, perfume and clothes...
[August 11, 2004, 16:45]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Counterfeit driving licences and a hundred CD copiers confiscated! Tuesday 25/05/2004The Business Software Alliance phones 'Scoop' Wearden to crow about its success in closing down software piracy rings.
[May 28, 2004, 18:35]
Police Smash £39m Italian Piracy Ring
News The network sold counterfeit software over the Internet using the three illegal Web sites selling downloadable programs and compilation discs containing dozens of different popular software applications, games, films and music on a single CD for a...
[November 6, 2002, 17:04]
Software Piracy Whistleblowing Becomes More Lucrative
News Under the BSA's rules, someone who reports that a company is using illegal software -- such as counterfeit or unlicensed programs -- will receive a reward of 10 percent of the face value of the software recovered.
[November 5, 2004, 14:03]
Police Found Using Pirated MS Software
News Police across the UK have bought and installed counterfeit Microsoft software, an investigation conducted by the City of London Police has discovered. Hampshire Police, which is responsible for recommending software to other forces in the UK...
[November 6, 2000, 15:28]
Russia Attacks Microsoft Licensing Costs
News Russia is in the Business Software Alliance's top 10 list of worst offending countries for counterfeit software, and deputy Russian IT minister, Dmitry Milovantsev, admitted in a briefing in Moscow last week that unlicensed software is a "very...
[February 19, 2007, 8:36]
CS Group Acquires FAST
News Any doubts that the Federation Against Software Theft is a commercial software company in the guise of an independent company claiming to represent commercial and user interests in the fight against counterfeit software were dispelled on Tuesday...
[May 9, 2007, 17:14]
Analysis: The Price Of Ignoring Software Piracy
News The good guys being the IT industry and the bad guys the pirates whose counterfeit software costs the industry dear -- estimates for 1997 put the global figure at round $11.4bn. As business operations director of Adobe and chair of the British...
[January 29, 1999, 12:23]
