r its software, Under a settlement agreement between the parties, Enterprise will pay the BSA $88,500 for unlicensed software installed at Enterprise, delete any unlicensed software at Enterprise and ensure that Enterprise is in full compliance going forward. These groups get their information mostly from anonymous tips, usually former employees of the offending company, but are very effective in prosecuting the offenders.Still another associated press writer shows us about a man who was sentenced to five years and 10 months imprisonment for selling pirated copies of Microsoft products from his store in Boston. This man was also ordered to pay $908,000 in restitution to Microsoft and to forfeit $440,000 to the federal government. Stories like this are few and far between, so most people pay very little attention.What Comes NextSoftware piracy is still following a rising trend, but luckily more people are becoming aware of it. Lawmakers and enforcement officials are quickly getting educated about this crime as software makers take legal action against pirates, and as the few who are caught make national headlines. With billions of dollars at stake worldwide, stronger measures must be taken to ensure not only the survival of individual programmers, but also the economic strength that the software ...
