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How the BSA Squeezes the Little Guys

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the theres-yer-problem-right-here dept.

netbuzz writes "Actually, 90% of the Business Software Alliance's revenue is squeezed from small businesses accused of using unlicensed software. A lawyer who represents some of them says his clients often suspect that it was the IT guy who just left — and was responsible for maintaining the licenses — who ratted them out for a big BSA reward."

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  1. No Sympathy for Ball part II by t0qer · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    So yah, we just had a discussion less than a few hours ago on this.

    This is a slightly different slant on the other article, but it's funny how this comment about cheap clients plays into this new article.

    So the IT guy leaves and rats out the business for stealing software. First thing that pops into my head is it must have been some pretty fucked up bosses to work for to motivate someone to take it as far as snitching.

    Of course, i'm going to get the normal "OMFG YOU'RE NOT A SLASH FANBOI!" dipshit comments from this.. Bring em.

    Maybe if these bosses didn't value their employees as low as the software they steal, there wouldn't be a problem with them quitting and going to the BSA.

    BTW if you're bored with these BSA stories, here's a story I submitted a few weeks ago about hackers bypassing the hypervisor on the PS3 for access to the Nvidia RSX GPU. I thought that story was way more signifigant than these BSA stories because once the X drivers are finished, game dev's can use linux for free to create PS3 games instead of paying sony a wad of cash for a dev kit. Maybe it got rejected because slash thinks rehashing the same shit stories with different headlines is news.