Millions of dollars in penalties for illegal software – Inwestycje.pl

In the past year under the settlements and judgments, the total value of claims in Poland for the use of illegal software in favor of producers who are members of BSA | The Software Alliance will be at least 4.4 million zł.

The amount of 4.4 million zł is much more than the sum that companies and individuals have to pay for infringement of software copyright in the two previous years. Such a large increase in the amount of compensation reflects the increasingly efficient cooperation of victims vendors with law enforcement authorities. Enough to compare the amount of compensation that companies and individuals committed to pay under the settlements and judgments in the past. In 2012,. And in 2013. Value of the compensation exceeded one and a half million. A year later, it was, admittedly, a little more than 1.3 million zł, but today 4.4 million zł.

A report published in the last year. R. Research BSA Global Software Survey shows that 51 per cent. Polish software used without proper licensing. The problem concerns among the industry engineering, printing, surveying and architecture. And though inglorious rate gradually declining (in 2007. And 2011. Amounted to 57 per cent. And 53 per cent.), Then with other countries in our region it is still high. Slovakia and Hungary unlicensed uses less than 40 percent. software, the Czech Republic has 34 percent. The EU average was up 31 percent.

In Poland, still rate the use of unlicensed software is high compared to the average in the EU. However, the reason for optimism is increasing interest in the implementation of best practice software asset management (SAM – Software Asset Management), mainly due to the resulting optimization of the cost of acquisition of the license to the software. Currently, conducted by BSA in the Lower and Upper Silesia campaign “Fact or Fiction” not only encourages these practices, but also enables the addressees campaigns use a variety of free tools and materials that are useful in ordering the management of software and licenses. As a reminder, more than 25,000 companies from Silesia has the opportunity to benefit from free access to their individual accounts under the base of the BSA Company Index, the level of which are available free tools and materials for the practice of software management (SAM – Software Asset Management) – said Bartlomiej Witucki , the representative of the BSA | The Software Alliance in Poland.


 In recent years, BSA | The Software Alliance, which represents in Poland and the world’s leading software companies get every year hundreds of reports of the use of illegal software in companies throughout the country. This is several times more than in the past.

In comparison with 2014 the number of notifications of pirated software in 2015 increased by nearly 170%. However, since the numbers, more important is improving the quality of submissions. This may be due m.in .: increase awareness that this type of application, as so. whistleblowing are acceptable, the effectiveness of campaigns in social media and transparency of the new online application form at the BSA. Let me once again remind you that the company elects to pirated installations should be aware of not only the risk of legal liability and financial, but also threats to IT security, which should be understood risk of data loss or acquisition by third parties – adds Witucki.

 Source: BSA | The Software Alliance

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