Home Medical Equipment Provider Pays $50,000 To Settle Claims of Unlicensed Software Use
WASHINGTON, May 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Business Software Alliance (BSA), the voice of the world's commercial software industry, today announced a settlement with Associated Healthcare, a home medical equipment provider based out of Amherst, NY. Associated Healthcare paid $50,000 to BSA to settle claims that it had unlicensed copies of Adobe, Microsoft and Symantec software installed on its computers. As part of the settlement agreement, the company agreed to delete all unlicensed copies of software from its computers, acquire any licenses necessary to become compliant and commit to implementing stronger software asset management (SAM) practices. BSA was alerted to the unlicensed software use by a confidential report made on its web site www.nopiracy.com.
"Associated Healthcare worked fully with BSA in resolving any issues of unlicensed software use," said Peter Storey, president of Associated Healthcare Systems, Inc. "The audit performed by Associated Healthcare has permitted our organization to implement processes that will assure that software licensing issues do not resurface. Associated Healthcare did not admit any liability by entering into this settlement. This settlement was the compromise of a disputed claim."
"All businesses need to be certain they have adequate licenses for all software installed on their computers," said Jenny Blank, BSA's senior director of legal affairs. "Unfortunately, many companies often find themselves paying a much higher price down the road through either legal damages or through exposing sensitive company information to the extensive risks that stem from using pirated software."
DATA
2007 New York Piracy Rate* |
20% |
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Losses to New York Software Vendors |
$673 million |
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Losses to New York Distributors/Service Providers |
$1.7 billion |
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Lost State and Local Tax Revenue (NY) |
$344 million |
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2008 U.S. Piracy Rate |
20% |
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2008 U.S. Losses to Software Industry |
$9.1 billion |
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vs. 2007 |
-1% |
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Benefits of reducing piracy by 10 percentage points over 4 years** |
32,000 new jobs; $41 billion in economic growth; $7 billion in tax revenue |
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2008 Global Piracy Rate |
41% |
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2008 Worldwide Losses to Software Industry |
$53.0 Billion |
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vs. 2007 |
+3% |
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*2008 BSA-IDC State Piracy Study **Sixth-Annual BSA-IDC Global Software Piracy Study |
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BSA Rewards Program |
Know It, Report It, Reward It |
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Rewards Paid by BSA Since 2008 |
$327,000 |
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Avg. Annual End-User Piracy Reports Received by BSA |
2,419 |
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Website for Reporting Piracy to BSA |
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Hotline for Reporting Piracy to BSA |
1-888-NO-PIRACY |
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BSA website |
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Free Self-Audit tools provided by BSA |
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Facebook (keyword) |
Business Software Alliance (BSA) Anti-Piracy |
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Fines for violating copyright law |
$150,000 per title copied |
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If convicted of violating copyright law |
$250,000 per title copied and/or Jail (up to 5 years) |
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Risks of Software Piracy |
Financial: Thousands of dollars in fines and damages |
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Technical: Information security risks; viruses, trojans, |
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malware; identity theft; Exposure of sensitive data and |
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personal information |
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Legal: Fines, Criminal Prosecution, Risk of being caught |
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by BSA |
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About BSA
The Business Software Alliance (www.bsa.org) is the foremost organization dedicated to promoting a safe and legal digital world. BSA is the voice of the world's commercial software industry and its hardware partners before governments and in the international marketplace. Its members represent one of the fastest growing industries in the world. BSA programs foster technology innovation through education and policy initiatives that promote copyright protection, cyber security, trade and e-commerce. BSA members include Adobe, Altium, Apple, Autodesk, Aveva, Bentley Systems, Corel, Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks Corporation, Microsoft, Minitab, Progress Software, Quark, Quest Software, Rosetta Stone, Siemens, Sybase, Symantec, and The MathWorks.
SOURCE Business Software Alliance
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