The Business Software Alliance (BSA) is going to try to find even more businesses using illegal software and the criminals behind distributing the software.
Before the Alliance believed in telling the companies that they did something wrong, now they are going to punish those who are naughty:
The BSA's decision to get tough with a "hard core of businesses" which think they are "beyond the law" follows hard on the heels of a report into the alleged global rise of software piracy. |
In particular, the BSA wants to target those criminal organisations that are using increasingly sophisticated methods to distribute illegal software on the Internet.
Said Mike Newton, campaign manager for BSA in the UK: "This is a strong response from the European software industry, whose tolerance levels have been tested considerably with a growing piracy rate.
"Clearly ongoing education and public policy work is having an impact but we cannot ignore the fact that a hard core of businesses using pirated software believe they are beyond the law."
Source: Theregister.co.uk
