BSA launches two-month crackdown

The Business Software Alliance is to launch a two-month campaign against businesses in London that haven't paid software licence fees.

BSA will be phoning 1,000 businesses at random, to ask them to fill in a self audit form, to see if they are using unlicensed software. BSA is already investigating several companies in the London area for using unlicensed software, it said in a release.

"The current downturn in the economy does not negate the need for businesses to keep the software they are using up-to-date and legal," said Alyna Cope, spokesperson for the BSA country committee, in a statement. "We want to promote the value of software and educate businesses in the capital on how it should be better managed, helping to save them money at a time when it is most needed and reducing the risk of facing legal action further down the line."

Let me just point out here that the legal action Cope is talking about would come from BSA itself.