In September, 2007, the Business Software Alliance (BSA) announced
a record anti piracy settlement of over $3,467,000. The claim involved an
undisclosed international media company we’ll call Target IMC. Realistically,
the underlying costs of this single punitive copyright compliance audit event—the
costs you never see published—easily exceeded $10M-$15M. Read on to discover
how your company can be exposed to this type of software piracy audit. More importantly,
we also discuss how Target IMC could have prevented, or at very least minimized, the
financial impact of their ineffective software asset management techniques.
Do you honestly think that the software police and copyright cops aren't aggressively hunting your company for software piracy, license non compliance, and copyright infringement violations? Think again... Read on.
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What? The miniscule royalties that actually end up in the hands of creative music artists are too high for the music industry players to pay? Now the RIAA is whining that they have to pay too much in royalties to the artists and companies that actually create the products that they distribute. Do they actually think we’ll fall for this (ill-)logic? It’s little wonder people tend to ignore all the big-money anti piracy propaganda flooding the media.
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A. Nice question! Scary, but very nice! The short answer - according to over 95% of the technology asset managers we have polled on three continents:
"Not a single one of them was willing to trust the copyright holder to help them straighten out suspected software piracy or copyright violations."
There are plenty of completely valid reasons for this perspective. The most common answer we have found is that, very frequently, an incorrectly drafted contact about licensing issues can easily bring down the software piracy audit teams. The Network provides you with vendor-neutral advice and knowledge necessary to steer clear of the software piracy danger zones.
Would you like a more complete discussion? We started this process of free answers to your questions. As long as you keep asking questions, we’ll keep adding to it!
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Has your company been hammered by a man-made or natural disaster? If you do not rebuild your technology infrastructure very carefully, you will be re-visited by yet another disaster: This one of legal origin. Your next headaches will be caused by counterfeit or incorrectly licensed copyright protected products loaded on your new systems--and you will not know of their existence until the auditing teams come calling. Even if you are not victim of a disaster--as in simply starting up a new business, you will gain serious cost savings for building a technology infrastructure for your budding company. In these Briefings we give you proven methods for saving money on your new or post-disaster tech purchases while significantly reducing audit risks--both now and in the future.
"The software police and copyright cops just can't wait to audit your company for software piracy and/or license non compliance."
In this Knowledge Briefing Series, Alan Plastow, the founder of The Business Technology Consumer Network, provides you with critical - and very frequently invisible - tips and strategies for reducing costs while protecting your company from software piracy punitive audits and threatened license non compliance litigation.
The so-called software police and copyright cops can -- and do -- offer whistle-blower rewards ranging from (up to) $10,000 to a whopping $1,000,000 in their efforts to locate you. Without the critical software asset management information in this Knowledge Briefing Series, both you and your company are easy audit targets.
"After the financial and personal impact of a disaster, precisely how many people do you suppose will be more than happy to report you or your company in return for a dangled whistle-blower reward?"
The first Knowledge Briefing in the Six Part Series, Natural Disaster Help I, can be found HERE. More to come.
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