Is the BSA "Grace Period" a Scam?

An anonymous reader asks: "I work at a small non-profit that has 18 employees plus a 13 seat computer lab. We received a form letter from the Business Software Alliance (BSA) telling us to do a self audit and if we find any unlicensed software to report it during our 'Grace Period' because 'if you organization's software is not licensed, it could become to focus of a BSA investigation'. Now this is obviously a method to scare up some business for the BSA members. If we ignore this, how likely is it that we will be 'investigated'. I know that I cannot produce the original CD's and/or documentation for some of the software that we HAVE paid for."

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Re:Ben Dover has a word for you

[anon*127.0.0.1]

Too bad the guy doesn't know jack about computers. He thinks you need to update your virus defs every single time you go to send or recieve mail.