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Latest News
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Hospital pays £13,000 for unlicensed software misuse |
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If you thought it was just the BSA that was actively pursuing software license misuse, think again. The Federation Against Software Theft (FAST) has announced a £13,000 (US $20,000) settlement fee after the hospital was found to be using unlicensed copies of software from FAST member, Esker. The FAST team worked with Sheffield Trading [...] Read more
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BSA fines UK organization £44,000 |
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The Business Software Alliance (BSA) has announced its latest settlement, with a London-based design agency accused of using unlicensed software from Apple, Adobe, Microsoft, Symantec and Autodesk. The result is a £24,000 settlement with the BSA and a further £20,000 (total: US $67,000) to get the necessary licenses. According to the BSA, the investigation came [...] Read more
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Software audits still on the rise, says Gartner |
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The latest research from Gartner (Data Center Polling Illustrates IT Asset Management as an Enabler, 8 March 2010) states that software audits continued to increase in volume through 2009. Around 60 percent of respondents in Deceber 2009 stated that they had been subject to at least one software audit in the previous 12 months. [...] Read more
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IBM sues brokerage for $1.7m of software misuse |
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IBM has filed a lawsuit in which it accuses a former customer of downloading and using more than $1.7 million worth of Informix software it was not entitled to. IBM says it offered to reach a settlement with the broker, but that this was rejected and the illegal software has still not been deleted from the [...] Read more
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BSA Australia announces increase in software compliance settlements |
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The Business Software Alliance (BSA) in Australia has announced a AU $100,000 increase in fines levied against organizations acccused of illegal software user in 2009 compared with the previous year. In total, the Australian BSA agreed settlements worth a total of AU $331,678 with 12 companies during 2009. The BSA also reported that it received a [...] Read more
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