Stories about: Business Software Alliance

Should European governments favor open-source software when they hold tenders for public contracts? Economists and policy makers appear to think so but industry giants including Microsoft argue that this would be discriminatory and are considering legal action to prevent this from happening.

Two digital rights advocacy groups have filed a lawsuit against the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) in an attempt to get the office to turn over information about a secret international treaty being negotiated to step up cross-border enforcement of copyright and piracy laws.

Proprietary software vendors, movie companies and the music industry aren't the only businesses that don't like pirates stealing, copying and reselling their CDs and DVDs.

Microsoft is adding a feature to its controversial software asset management (SAM) program that it claims will benefit corporate IT users by giving them a scorecard for evaluating their internal asset management processes.

Microsoft has filed 21 lawsuits in 14 U.S. states against resellers in which it alleges they engaged in the sale of pirated software, it said Tuesday.

The results from the Business Software Alliance's fifth-annual study on global software piracy revealed some statistics that would put a smile on any software company executive's face: Of the 108 countries that are covered in the recently released report, the use of pirated software dropped in 67 countries. In just eight countries did the piracy rate increase.

Washington politicians are frequently pilloried for moving too slowly to respond to emerging problems, and while the adage has proven true regarding the federal sector's response to cyber-security thus far, the US government is making slow progress in addressing the issue, experts maintain.

Reducing software piracy in Australia by just 10 percentage points over the next four years could generate 3,900 new jobs, according to a new study released yesterday by the Business Software Alliance (BSA).

The Business Software Alliance secured nearly $600,000 in settlements for illegal software use in Australia last year.

Ever since we learned that the Canadian Alliance Against Software Theft doesn't take into account open source software when it comes up with its annual piracy statistics, we stopped reporting their numbers. When you only look at proprietary shipments, you miss a great piece of the puzzle. We just don't know how big a piece it is.

Employees doing their online holiday shopping at work could put their companies' IT systems at risk, according to a survey conducted by RT Strategies for the Business Software Alliance (BSA), an industry trade group.