Software Piracy Audits (Such as those listed below) are incredibly costly--in cold hard cash; in lost productivity; and in damage to both your reputation and the corporate reputation. The software audit results listed here represent only the very tip of this hidden iceberg. In each settlement, the amount announced as the fine does not include the true cost or business impact of the event. Those actual costs have been estimated to come in as 3 to 6 times the published amount.
Software piracy audits are constantly referred to as educational events--used by the collective enforcement industry to educate the public and business entities. If that is the case, we have to ask why the vast majority of settlements are never made public--even in the generic form we use here. How can concealing the majority of audits serve as an honest process of educating the business technology consumer of the importance of software license compliance assurance?
With these facts in mind, here is our list of software piracy targets--and a very clear statement that each and every one of these companies could have reduced the financial impact of these events by as much as 90% if the had simply read and acted upon the free information contained on this web site.
Colorado Door Company Loses $92,000 in Software Piracy Audit
North Carolina Motor Sports Loses $72,050 in Software Piracy Audit 2008-04-17 09:03:09
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