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London crackdown on software piracy begins todayA fifth of software used by London businesses is unlicensed, costing the software industry £149m a year, according to a report published today. The...News Date: 13:35 01 Jun 2009
Cost of software piracy reaches record levelsThe cost of software piracy in the UK has risen to its highest level at £1.49bn last year, with more than a quarter of all products in the market now being...News Date: 13:45 12 May 2009
BSA claims software piracy victoryThe British Software Alliance (BSA) has taken legal action against four UK companies for using unlicensed software. Fines totalling over £50,000 were handed out for copyright infringement after discrepancies we...News Source: www.cbronline.com
Software piracy rises to 27%Software piracy increased last year, representing 27 per cent of the UK market, according to the latest figures from the Business Software Alliance (BSA). This was up from 26 per cent in 2007 and in line with t...News
Software Piracy Cost UK Industry 1.49 Billion in 2008Pirate software on PCs in the UK has surged to a record 27 percent last year, which translates to around 1.49 billion (US$2.3 billion) in lost sales, service and support opportunities, according to the sixth an...News Source: www.cio.com Date: 05:00 13 May 2009
The FAST track to justice on piracySMBs beware: The Federation Against Software Theft has just embarked on phase two of a campaign designed to catch corporate perpetrators of software piracy.In Depth Date: 12:00 28 Apr 2006
White paper: IDC Piracy Impact StudyIDC’s report, The Economic Benefits of Lowering PC Software Piracy, quantifies the additional economic benefits that could result from a ten percentage point reduction in PC software piracy. The study demonstra...Whitepapers Date: 15:29 19 Nov 2009
Your shout: Tax system, piracy and jobsFollowing your report and editorial on the problems facing HM Revenue & Customs' chief information officer Steve Lamey (Computer Weekly, 31 May), I would like to offer him the support of the application softwar...Opinion Date: 12:00 22 Jun 2005
IDG Connect : Best Practices for Preventing Software PiracyIn this webcast, CEO of Arxan Technologies, Mike Dager, along with IDC guest speaker Melinda Ballou, Program Director for Application Life-Cycle Management and ITMS, explore key findings from software piracy re...Web
EBay seller sentenced for software piracyA federal judge has sentenced a Virginia man to more than three years in prison for selling roughly $1 million worth of pirated software on eBay, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.Gregory William Fair...Pressrelease Source: www.mxlogic.com Date: 18:42 26 Oct 2009
Why pirate when there's so much free stuff out thereThe Business Software Alliance members include large, powerful commercial software companies, who obviously want to make sure they get the license fees they are owed. But why bother considering commercial softw...Blog Date: 00:01 22 Jan 2008
Software Piracy – A Threat to Security!Beginning of this year, I tried to understand, whether we can show a collaboration between Piracy (stolen software) and Malware Infections. I played a little bit with the data I had available and came to the co...Blog Source: blogs.technet.com Date: 13:08 14 Oct 2009
Website Magazine : Aaarrgh Matey: Software PiracyIs software piracy prevalent? According to an IDC study commissioned by the Business Software Alliance the answer is a definitive...YES. The report estimates that 35% of programs used worldwide in 2004 were pir...Blog