bsa in comment and analysis
China's long road to copyright
Comment The Business Software Alliance (BSA) estimates that in 2004, software piracy in China cost its members $3.5bn in lost revenue - the second-highest rate of dollar losses in the world, after the US' $6.6bn in piracy-related losses. [19 Sep 2005]
Tech and US government building cyber defence
Comment The four organisations that sponsored the Summit - the Business Software Alliance (BSA), the Information Technology Association of America, the TechNet lobbying group and the US Chamber of Commerce - brought together five groups of company... [04 Dec 2003]
Leader: Corporate software pirates: Guilty as charged?
Leader The BSA in a show of compassion earlier this year offered a virtual amnesty to companies who have broken the terms of a licence. "But I didn't read the small print on my licence. But the licences are so complicated. [22 Oct 2003]
Software crime: Would you admit to an accidental breach?
Comment Today the BSA urged users to confess to any breaches of software licensing in order to protect themselves from future prosecution. If you report this to the BSA you will put them onto the counterfeiter who supplied the software to you, undoubtedly... [25 Sep 2003]
Microsoft licensing row - is the customer always right...
Comment It's not that the likes of the BSA and FAST shouldn't throw the book at customers who deliberately and openly flout the law by using counterfeit and unlicensed software but many users are just genuinely confused and uncertain about how compliant... [23 Jul 2003]
The best of 'Reader Comments': BT downtime and the BSA under fire
Comment FAST do a great job on their own to get things checked so I think this is just BSA's idea of validating itself. From the past seven days, we present some reactions to stories about downtime on BT's UK national network (http://www.silicon.com... [23 Nov 2001]
Why the software police is facing opposition
Comment The Business Software Alliance (BSA) wants to crackdown on software piracy and it has come up with a cunning new plan. IT departments across the UK will soon be asked to fill out the BSA's '2001 Software Audit', outlining what software they use and... [22 Nov 2001]
The MoD, the NHS and a company called Microsoft
Comment And it stops Microsoft and the BSA beating their backs with birch twigs over software piracy. It's no secret that Bill Gates and Tony Blair are good mates. On his visits to Number 10 Bill is accorded head of state-like status and his advice on... [08 Nov 2001]
Software: how do you want to pay today?
Comment The decision is also good news for smaller companies with less time to waste trying to placate the Business Software Alliance (BSA) and Federation Against Software Theft (Fast). Microsoft announced yesterday that in the future it will charge for... [14 Jun 2000]
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