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 ...

The pandemic caused by COVID-19 has a destructive reach that goes beyond that of a highly contagious and deadly illness. It is also contributing to the rapid spread of piracy — as in spreading illegal ...

Despite progress in stopping the illegal use of software, PC software piracy remains a serious problem globally, especially in the fastest-growing markets, a new study revealed. Released Tuesday, the ...

Q. Recently I’ve partnered with someone selling software license keys. I’m pretty sure the way we sell them is against the license terms of the vendor, but my partner told me that everything we do is ...

An industry group representing the world's largest software makers on Thursday named California, New York and Utah among the states with the greatest drop in piracy rates for business software. The ...

A new study commissioned by the Business Software Alliance says that countries around the world are leaving billions of dollars of economic growth on the table due to piracy. The study was carried out ...

If you don't know what the Business Software Alliance is, consider yourself lucky. A nonprofit trade group formed by more than a dozen major software makers--including Microsoft, Adobe Systems and ...

Big vendors such as Microsoft and IBM say that they’re collectively losing billions of dollars a year in software sales because of piracy, and are working together and with government to address the ...

Rate of software piracy hits 43 percent last year, costing industry billions in profits, says study from IDC and Business Software Alliance. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer ...

Eastern Europe led the world in software piracy last year, followed closely by the Asia-Pacific region, the only area to see a rise in software copyright infringement, according to a new survey ...

It rose for the second year running, from 38% of all software used to 41%, due largely to the increased rate of PC shipments in areas of asia that don't respect copyright, such as China and India.