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£1.49bn: The price of pirate desktop software in the UK
News More than a quarter of the desktop software installed in the UK last year - 27 per cent - was pirated according to the sixth annual global IDC software piracy study, sponsored by the Business Software Alliance (BSA),... [13 May 2009]
Corporate IT at risk from knocked-off electronics
News According to trade body UK Electronics Alliance (UKEA), millions of pirate electronic components ranging from CPUs to memory are in danger of being used by businesses and the public sector. Corporate IT... [28 Jan 2009]
Software piracy jumps to $185m as industry fights back
News Microsoft continues to be the top software brand to pirate, followed in the first half of the year by Sony, Adobe, Autodesk and Macromedia, Gieschen said. These figures are echoed in a recent study by the Business... [05 Oct 2005]
China's long road to copyright
Comment Thomas Pattloch, chairman of the European Union Chamber of Commerce Intellectual Property Rights working group, says: "The arguments we hear from the Chinese side are, 'Please lower the prices and then we won't pirate'. [19 Sep 2005]
Pirate software users pay up €4m
News The fines imposed by the courts for the use of dodgy software ranged from €10,000 to the €300,000 imposed on an a firm of architects that was found to be a prolific pirate-software user. The Business Software... [07 Mar 2005]
Spam-happy shoppers love stolen software
News Ironically it is the very Trojans which can come bundled in with pirate software that help create the networks of compromised machines abused by spammers. The Forrester survey, conducted on behalf of the Business... [10 Dec 2004]
Beware Santa bearing pirate software
News The Business Software Alliance (BSA) is putting out a seasonal reminder to consumers to be aware of the threat of buying knocked-off software during the Christmas shopping season. It's not the jovial fat man coming down... [17 Nov 2004]
'Robin Hoods' in the dock over DrinkorDie
News In August it published research which found that 44 per cent of 18 to 29 year-olds in the UK possessed pirate or counterfeit goods. DrinkorDie was an international alliance of software pirates, known as... [20 Oct 2004]
Microsoft and eBay team up to stop software pirates
News The Business Software Alliance has reported a growing number of spam emails selling the pirate software. Companies who buy quantities of this software run the risk of being audited by the BSA (Business... [11 Jun 2004]
Fake-software junk mail - a spam investigator's insight
News There's often an organised group behind [the pirate software], working with spammers and hackers," he said. Consumers, however, have spotted the spam and started reporting it to the Business Software... [25 May 2004]
Firms face criminal charges over unlicensed software
News Businesses are being urged to grass each other up as part of a new crackdown on unlicensed and pirate software by the Federation Against Software Theft (FAST) that could see firms face criminal prosecution. [19 Jan 2004]
Santa warned off giving pirate software
News The Business Software Alliance has warned Christmas shoppers about the danger of unwittingly buying pirate software. Many companies and individuals selling software online may be shipping pirated copies... [13 Nov 2003]
Software piracy: Are you doing it on purpose?
News While some users may claim they merely fail to read or understand the small print of their increasingly complex licences, or bought pirate software 'in good faith' thinking it to be genuine, these excuses are starting to... [22 Oct 2003]
The Ovum View: DRM - protecting content and revenues
Comment The International Federation of Phonographic Industries (IFPI) estimates, in its June 2002 report, that the pirate market for music was worth $4.3bn and that this figure is conservative. Initially this will consist of... [10 Jul 2003]
Software pirates 'should be hung, drawn and quartered'
News The comments came flooding in after we reported on the sentencing of a software pirate, who received 15 months in prison and was ordered to pay £15,000 costs. While the Business Software Alliance may... [09 Jul 2003]
