BSA: pirated software taking cops off the street, costs jobs

The Business Software Alliance has had IDG conduct another piracy survey, this one focused on eight US states. The report attempts to shock everyone from their piratical ways by calculating the losses in unusual units: police officers taken off the street.

July 18, 2008 - 12:28PM CT - by John Timmer

Microsoft executive: Pirating software? Choose Microsoft!

Microsoft group president Jeff Raikes told an audience in San Francisco last week that the company hopes people, if they’re going to pirate software, choose to pirate Microsoft software. What’s Raikes thinking?

March 12, 2007 - 07:22PM CT - by Matt Mondok