Law

Anti-Piracy Program Offers $1M Bounty to Whistleblowers

The Business Software Alliance is escalating its software piracy program by offering $1 million for software piracy tips, up from its previous $200,000 reward. The alliance said it has collected $22 ...
Computerworld

Study shows software piracy declining in many countries

The results from the Business Software Alliance’s fifth-annual study on global software piracy revealed some statistics that would put a smile on any software company executive’s face: Of the 108 ...
Network World

Software piracy: Love it or hate it

Big vendors such as Microsoft and IBM say that they’re collectively losing billions of dollars a year in software sales because of piracy, and are working together and with government to address the ...
Business Wire

The numbers are in for V.i. Labs: detection and reporting proves the most effective approach for software vendors to combat piracy, recover license revenue

WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The leading software intelligence solutions provider, V.i. Laboratories, Inc. (“V.i. Labs”), today announced the company achieved record growth in 2010 as Independent ...
CSOonline

BSA Offers up to $1M for Software Piracy Reports

The Business Software Alliance (BSA) has temporarily raised the reward, from US$200,000 to $1 million, that’s part of a controversial program encouraging people to report software piracy, the trade ...