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SIIA paid out $57,000 to piracy whistleblowers last year

article published on 13 February, 2011

Last year, the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA), paid out $57,000 to piracy whistleblowers, rewarding 16 reports. Overall, the group received 157 reports of alleged 'corporate end user software piracy' and pursued 42 of those. Only 16 paid out, however. Most of the reports came from former IT staff members, with a full 75 percent coming from current or ex IT staff ... [ read the full article ]

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biver
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_ 		15. February 2011 @ 10:30 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Lets look at the bigger picture. If big software companies would quit releasing the same B.S. software every year for $3000 a seat (Cough..Autocad..Cough) Maybe there would not be such a piracy problem.
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IguanaC64
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_ 		15. February 2011 @ 14:17 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
That's not even one copy of Autocad...in their EULA they say that even pirating one license puts you on the hook for $500k.
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