The 2011 BSA Global Software Piracy Study claims a $63 billion global piracy problem with 57% of users admitting they pirate software, but enforcement techniques like whistle blower campaigns and take down notices can yield bad PR. Software Intelligence solutions enable vendors to shine a light on what the BSA calls the “shadow market” by [...]
The BSA issued its ninth annual global piracy study today, revealing that the commercial value of pirated software rose from $58.8 billion in 2010 to $63.4 billion in 2011. The report also finds that 57 percent of computer users admit to pirating software and that the global piracy rate “hovers at 42 percent.” The BSA [...]
Join host Dan Thompson and guest Michael Goff to learn more about the new Piracy Revenue Pipeline ticker on V.i. Labs’ homepage and how it compares to the BSA’s annual global piracy study.
Recent news that LG Electronics’ Russian branch is the target of a software piracy investigation brings to mind one of my favorite scenes from Casablanca…
Wow – where to begin? The last seven days have been abuzz with software piracy in the news. BSA/IDC Software Piracy Study Let’s start with the publishing of the Seventh Annual BSA/IDC Global Software Piracy Study. Matthew Schwartz at InformationWeek had a nice article (in which V.i. Labs was quoted), but we have some additional [...]
V.i. Labs hosted a license compliance panel discussion on "Best Practices for Generating, Investigating and Converting License Compliance Opportunities" featuring guest speakers from Dassault Systèmes, Sullivan & Worcester, and Software Compliance Group.
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The 2011 BSA Global Software Piracy Study claims a $63 billion global piracy problem with 57% of users admitting they pirate software, but enforcement techniques like whistle blower campaigns and take down notices can yield bad PR. Software Intelligence solutions enable vendors to shine a light on what the BSA calls the “shadow market” by [...]
Read MoreV.i. Labs’ top customers have identified more than $2.4 billion in revenue recovery opportunity since deploying CodeArmor® Intelligence; a sample of customers sharing results have reported gains of new license revenue of more than $100 million since 2011 using software intelligence data.
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