Source: LasvegasSun.com
The BSA finally made a (small) success...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A software trade group that conducted an online anti-piracy sting sued 13 Americans Monday, alleging they sold bootleg software worth tens of thousands of dollars on Internet auction sites. |
The Business Software Alliance, which represents software companies like Microsoft Corp., Macromedia Inc. and Adobe Systems Inc., conducted the worldwide sting operation to fend off pirates and educate consumers. CD-ROM recorders and high-speed Internet connections have made it easy for bootleggers to peddle illegally copied software quickly and cheaply.
And this part is probably meant to say, pirated software is bad quality, we call it efficiency
In most cases, the software was shown in online advertisements in a boxed package, but arrived as a single CD-ROM with the program name and its serial number written in marker on one side of the disk. In one instance, an auction offered full versions of 21 expensive, advanced Web design and graphics programs. The programs that arrived were jammed onto two CD-ROMs clearly made by a home CD-ROM recorder. |
