A buddy of mine just faxed me a letter that was mailed to his company from the Business Software Alliance [bsa.org] stating that they were offering a software piracy "truce" to companies in his area. It was along the lines of "If you come clean and buy licenses for all of your software, we won't pursue you for piracy."
My questions are this:
Anyone have any prior experience with this organization?
What grounds would they have to come to your place of business and conduct a "search"? Wouldn't they need a police warrant if they didn't have your permission?
How does the Business Software Alliance determine who they are going to investigate?
After just a few minutes of surfing their site, it seems to me that they aren't very productive when it comes to reclaiming losses. Their published total for the entire state of Florida is only $113,000 and that came from just 4 companies. Seems to me they could do a little better than that if they really were serious about reclaiming lost profits.
All right, that's my topic for the day, discuss among yourselves.
My questions are this:
Anyone have any prior experience with this organization?
What grounds would they have to come to your place of business and conduct a "search"? Wouldn't they need a police warrant if they didn't have your permission?
How does the Business Software Alliance determine who they are going to investigate?
After just a few minutes of surfing their site, it seems to me that they aren't very productive when it comes to reclaiming losses. Their published total for the entire state of Florida is only $113,000 and that came from just 4 companies. Seems to me they could do a little better than that if they really were serious about reclaiming lost profits.
All right, that's my topic for the day, discuss among yourselves.
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