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UK Firm Fined £250,000 Over Unlicensed Software
News The Business Software Alliance is to receive a record out-of-court settlement from a British company which used unlicensed software. The company was found to be using unlicensed copies of Adobe, Autodesk and Microsoft software on hundreds of PCs...
[June 21, 2007, 17:09]
£750,000 Paid Up For Unlicensed Software Use
News Microsoft has reached settlements of £500,000 and £250,000 with two UK customers over unlicensed software. In addition, a survey conducted by Microsoft of 25 UK customers that have worked with Microsoft partners in the last year on software asset...
[July 4, 2005, 16:20]
Anger Over Call To Fine Unlicensed Software Users
Talkback I used to work for a company that was using massive amounts of unlicensed software and that was not exactly a back street shop so I don't think BSA's claims are so groundless
[September 1, 2006, 17:44]
£750,000 Paid Up For Unlicensed Software Use
Talkback But was it unlicensed *MS* software? MS has used the BSA to hammer wayward Novell customers into dropping Novell all together and ponying up for MS' variants. See: http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/1998/01/burstein.html
[July 4, 2005, 20:34]
Anger Over Call To Fine Unlicensed Software Users
News The Business Software Alliance (BSA) has called for a change in the law so that harsher fines can be imposed for unlicensed software use. Software compliance is not taken seriously [by companies] — 27 percent of business software is unlicensed.
[August 31, 2006, 17:00]
Microsoft Claims Success Against Unlicensed Software
News Microsoft says it is forcing more rogue dealers and traders to pay up for selling or handling counterfeit and unlicensed software and has doubled the amount of money it recovers from each one. According to Alexander, Microsoft has so far unearthed...
[October 19, 2006, 16:25]
Claranet Faces Action Over 'unlicensed' Software
News Internet service provider Claranet is among five UK companies facing legal action from the Business Software Alliance over alleged use of unlicensed software. The BSA is backed by software firms including Adobe, Inprise, Lotus, Macromedia...
[September 26, 2001, 17:48]
Are BSA A Protection Racket Or Do They Own The Unlicensed Software?
Talkback If BSA sue, what gives them the legal right to demand payment from someone for their unlicensed use of another company's software? Also, use of software is covered by contract law not criminal law - if you use an unlicensed copy you can be sued...
[June 25, 2007, 12:36]
£750,000 Paid Up For Unlicensed Software Use
Talkback How good of Microsoft to first come up with licensing terms people can practicely graduate in. Then litter the market with PR articles that claim just about the opposite. And teach their sales force and partners to say just about anything with no...
[July 5, 2005, 0:29]
Anger Over Call To Fine Unlicensed Software Users
Talkback There should be no ability to treat software license infringements as a 'serious issue' rather than purely a civil contract dispute until Software vendors lose the ability to write their own rules. Agreements, to have any meaning at all, need to be...
[September 1, 2006, 12:07]
Anger Over Call To Fine Unlicensed Software Users
Talkback The last guy has a point. It's their ball park, we are just illegally doing some batting!
[September 1, 2006, 17:41]
Anger Over Call To Fine Unlicensed Software Users
Talkback Exceptions only confirm the rule. Making the exceptions the example as a reason for how to go about the rest of the bunch only demonstrates how wrong one is. Clearly there are more common reasons why exceptions as specified exist in the first place.
[September 1, 2006, 23:15]
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 study found that the value of unlicensed software in the UK had...
[May 19, 2005, 12:45]
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. If somebody has unlicensed software, that is a liability.
[September 24, 2004, 11:50]
Russian Teacher Wins Software Licensing Case
News The case against a Russian schoolteacher who was accused of using unlicensed software in the classroom has been thrown out, following international attention and an intervention from former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
[February 15, 2007, 14:19]
Microsoft Starts Software Fraud Campaign
News Microsoft has launched a campaign in the UK in an attempt to cut use of counterfeit and other unlicensed software in organisations. The software giant will also focus on online retail and auction sites, which can be a popular source of unlicensed...
[February 16, 2006, 13:55]
BSA Offers £20k Bounty To Rat On Your Boss
Talkback "£20,000 reward to anyone who informs on their employer using illegal or unlicensed software" - I would be happy to use "illegal or unlicensed software" to inform on my masters. But there's no doubt a missing "for" in the above quotation.
[April 28, 2006, 19:24]
Staff Shop Bosses For Using Pirate Software
News Disgruntled employees are more likely to shop their company for using unlicensed software than directors reporting problems voluntarily, according to research from the British Software Alliance (BSA).
[May 24, 2001, 15:58]
Most Firms Guilty Of 'lax' Software Policy
News An international PC management survey shows that most companies have not implemented a software compliance policy, which means they could unknowingly be using unlicensed software and face prosecution.
[June 19, 2003, 14:44]
Counting The Cost Of Counterfeiting
News Despite successfully shutting down a prolific trader in unlicensed software last week, Alexander admits that the odds are stacked against her. Microsoft estimates it loses around £250m annually due to counterfeit and unlicensed software.
[May 22, 2006, 13:30]
