The cloud will ‘change piracy’: BSAA
Moving software to the cloud will have an impact on the piracy industry, according to co-chair of the Business Software Alliance of Australia (BSAA), Clayton Noble.
Moving software to the cloud will have an impact on the piracy industry, according to co-chair of the Business Software Alliance of Australia (BSAA), Clayton Noble.
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) have embarked on a major crackdown of counterfeit goods, including pirated software, computers and CDs and DVDs, in a move hailed by as a victory by software companies such as Microsoft and representatives of the music and film and TV industries.
A new ad campaign and a quadrupling of its pirate bounty are the latest tools to be deployed by the Business Software Alliance of Australia (BSAA) in its ongoing fight against software piracy.
The Business Software Alliance Australia — a group which represents software companies on intellectual property issues — has called for government to create specialised cyber cops who would track down software pirates and bring them to justice.