Anonymous

North Yorkshire

IT Manager

"The BSA spokesman said the figures shouldn't be interpreted as a sign that 29 per cent of companies in the UK only use illegal software but more an indication that 29 per cent of software across all organisations is illegal."

The above quote from the BSA spokesman seems to be a pretty poor / negative / broad sweeping opinion to me. This would indicate that the BSA themselves have a problem then!?! We are members of FAST (Gold Award now) and are 99.99% certain that we have no illegal software on our network. We have procedures and processes in place (audits running every 7 days with reporting via exception i.e. anything the system does not recognise gets reported daily) to ensure we are legally compliant. My experience of the BSA is not training users, but rather attempting to bully them into submission with letters etc. which try to give the impression users should comply with the BSA's request to possibly incriminate themselves.

In my opinion, the BSA approach things all wrong and need to change themselves, if they are to get more support etc. from UK businesses to tackle this problem.