Software piracy is so widespread that it exists in homes, schools, businesses and government offices. According to the Business Software Alliance (BSA), an international association representing the leading software developers, software piracy is practiced by individual PC users as well as computer professionals who deal wholesale in stolen applications. The problem of software piracy is so extensive, warns Jerry Brady, CTO of Guardent, that proprietary software is now readily available for download from numerous Web sites and peer-to-peer file-swapping strongholds on the Internet.
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Software Piracy Worldwide
Posted by: Jack M. Germain July 3, 2004 01:30 AMSoftware piracy is so widespread that it exists in homes, schools, businesses and government offices. According to the Business Software Alliance (BSA), an international association representing the leading software developers, software piracy is practiced by individual PC users as well as computer professionals who deal wholesale in stolen applications. The problem of software piracy is so extensive, warns Jerry Brady, CTO of Guardent, that proprietary software is now readily available for download from numerous Web sites and peer-to-peer file-swapping strongholds on the Internet.