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Business Software Alliance

Somewhere in D.C., there could be a rat collecting his pay for narcing on his boss. (Photo: Getty)

If Your Boss Installs Bootleg Copies of Photoshop, You Can Snitch for Cash

How much is that five percent? Well only a few hundred dollars in the smaller cases, but the BSA fines some corporations hundreds of thousands of dollars. In one landmark instance, they won a case against a European firm for millions, though the informant, in a fit of abject insanity, turned down the money.
By Jack Smith IV
Counterfeit computer programmes are pictured in a shop in Dhaka on May 13, 2009 a day after a report into software piracy found Bangladesh to have the highest rate of fake products in the Asia-Pacific region. The annual survey by the Business Software Alliance (BSA) and industry research firm IDC showed 92 percent of the South Asian nation?s software was unlicensed. AFP PHOTO/Munir uz ZAMAN (Photo: Munir Uz Zaman/AFP/Getty Images)

Software Piracy: Will You Snitch for Cash?

"Need some extra cash? If you know a company using unlicensed business software, file a report."
By Mark Rykken Jr.

NYC’s 8th-Largest Accounting Firm: Oops We Didn’t Know Our Copies of Every Important Enterprise Software Were Pirated, Here’s $385 K. Thx Bye!

Citrin Cooperman, the 28th largest accounting firm in the country, was just fined $385,000 for having illegal copies of Adobe, Corel,
By Adrianne Jeffries

Meet Emmy Laybourne, Daughter of Cable-TV Royalty

By NYO Staff
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