BSA Cracks Downs on Small Business Pirates

November 29th, 2007

The Business Software Alliance announced another crackdown on software piracy last week. The BSA said that as part of an effort to deter California businesses from using unlicensed software, two California-based companies will pay the software piracy watchdog more than $175,000 to settle claims that they had unlicensed software on their computers.The companies agreed to delete all unlicensed copies of software, acquire any necessary replacement licenses, and commit to implementing stronger software license management practices.

“Since 2004, California settlement dollars have increased by a total of 32 percent,” Jenny Blank, senior director of legal affairs for the BSA, said in a statement. “We are concerned about these increases and hope to continue to raise awareness about the many risks associated with software piracy in order to deter businesses from using unlicensed software.”

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