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Business Software Alliance asks Britons to become paid informants
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| Here in the UK, the Business Software
| Alliance is running its annual paid
| informant "Nail Your Boss" program, in
| which they give big cash rewards to people
| who fink out their employers for running
| pirate software. This happens every year,
| but it reminded me of one of the funniest
| incidents in my life as a copyfighter:
|
| I was guest-lecturing for a week at a
| master class on issues related to
| international copyright to grad students at
| Budapest's Central European University. The
| speaker following me was the lawyer who ran
| the Hungarian division of the Business
| Software Alliance. He described the many
| means by which the BSA tried to combat
| piracy, and then he mentioned this paid
| informant program.
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http://www.boingboing.net/2009/12/01/business-software-al-2.html
Recent:
SA bangs piracy drum
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| Most users will simply do without the software or
| switch to something more affordable or even open
| source. A huge part of the problem with software
| is that it is expensive and most users just can't
| afford the price tag. Having a pirated copy is
| nice but not nice enough to convince them to hand
| over thousands of rands to buy a legitimate copy.
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http://mybroadband.co.za/news/Software/10099.html
Piracy's global economic impact debated
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| But critics of the study say it fails to account for the possibility that
| pirated software could be replaced with Linux or other open-source options. If
| it were, the BSA's global loss figure of $53 billion would drop sharply, they
| maintain.
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http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/342057/Piracy_s_global_economic_impact_debated?taxonomyId=18
Open Source: One Sure Way To Keep Piracy At Bay
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| The BSA won't tell you that the best way to avoid software piracy is to use
| software that cannot, by definition, be pirated. Then again, the BSA also
| won't tell you that a disgruntled ex-employee decided to make your life
| miserable by giving them a call.
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http://www.bmighty.com/blog/main/archives/2009/08/the_software_co.html
Don't Copy That Floppy sequel promises prison beatings for copying
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| The BSA are, of course, big proponents of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade
| Agreement, which would require signatories to send noncommercial copiers to
| prison, so I suppose that there's something to this threat.
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http://www.boingboing.net/2009/07/06/dont-copy-that-flopp-1.html
Is The BSA Purposely Promoting Open Source Alternatives?
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| So, what is the BSA doing? Yes, that's right, it's pumping up its software
| audit program, sending 1,000 audit letters to companies in London, officially
| demanding they detail their software usage -- while unofficially acting as a
| tremendous advertisement for open source software, where providers don't
| treat their customers as if they were criminals.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090602/2302305104.shtml
How many billions is open-source software worth?
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| In other words, using OSS isn't about being anti-Microsoft or believing in
| some sort of open-source ethical rightfulness, using OSS is simply a smart
| business move. Indeed, at $387-billion in value, OSS is twice as valuable as
| Microsoft's current net worth of $183.5-billion. Not bad for 'free software'
| is it?
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http://blogs.computerworld.com/how_many_billions_is_open_source_software_worth
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