By Julian Goldsmith, 21 January 1999 00:30
NEWS Only 24 hours after Microsoft steamrollered $14m worth of counterfeit CD Roms, the Business Software Alliance (BSA) - which is part-funded by the software giant - has blown the lid on a counterfeiting operation worth $237m. The piracy watchdog worked with Danish police and the country's National Computer Crime Unit to uncover 125,000 pirate CD Roms from a fabrication plant. The haul is the biggest in Europe so far, according to the BSA. The raid was prompted by a tip-off from a Danish Internet Service Provider (ISP) which had noticed the counterfeiters selling the CD Roms online. The CDs contained copied software from Adobe, Corel, Microsoft and Symantec. Anne Edmonds-Smith, chairwoman of BSA UK, said: "If this software had reached the open market, it would have had a huge effect on the industry. Users are committing a crime by buying pirated software. It's not fair on those who pay for licences. It leaves the burden of developing costs on those who pay for legitimate software."
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