R100 000 for Blowing Whistle on Pirated Software

Employees are scrambling to report employers using pirated software, after the Business Software Alliance (BSA) openly offered a R100 000 reward as part of an anti-piracy marketing campaign.

BSA chairperson Alastair de Wet says the hotline and online report figures spiked by 200 percent in the first month since the campaign started. They are receiving two to three times more calls since the first radio advert.

“We are not really looking at your uncle who has a pirated operating system. We are looking at businesses that are not interested in implementing legal software" says de Wet. 

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