The Business Software Alliance (BSA) is kicking butt and taking names on
both the domestic and international fronts.

After complaining for several years about how much piracy has hurt software
developers the BAS has sprung into action and raided a university that
played free and loose with software copying rules.

In its raid in February, the Washington-based BSA hit a computer-training
center at Denver's Colorado Free University. U.S. marshals and BSA
auditors stormed the center and uncovered a heap of illegally copied
software from Aldus, Lotus, WordPerfect and other vendors. The school was
fined $60,000 and, according to the BSA, is now changing its
software-copying policy, or at least setting up one.

On the international front, the BSA asked the U.S. Trade Representative to
add three countries -- China, Brazil and India -- to the priority list of
countries that need to battle software piracy.

The BSA estimates that in China alone, rampant software copying and reverse
engineering knockoffs divert more than $322 million annually from U.S.
software publishers. The report also added 27 more countries to the
priority watch, hoping to embarrass them into cleaning up their software
policies.

For more information, contact the BSA at 202-872-5500

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