Some asshole that was in the need of money has called the BSA Hotline in the UK. He told them about a company that was using illegal software.
Dumfries-based outfit Frazier International Group agreed to pay the Business Software Alliance (BSA) £40,000 after being caught using "a number of items" of software it either didn't have a license for, or for which it had the wrong license. |
The company claimed the pirated goods, including software from Microsoft, Adobe and Symantec, started being used when the outfit experienced a period of rapid growth.
The BSA was tipped off about Frazier by a caller to its hotline. This unnamed caller has now claimed ten per cent of the "settlement" - a tidy £4,000.
In my opinion is illegal software in companies much more damaging then 'home piracy'. But the BSA's 'Hotline' is one of the worst methods to find out about it.
Source: TheRegister
