____/ 7 on Tuesday 12 February 2008 20:46 : \____
> Doug Mentohl wrote:
>
>> "Companies pay $172,000 over unlicensed software claims .. Two US
>> firms have agreed to hand over significant piles of cash to the
>> Business Software Alliance (BSA) to settle claims they had run
>> unlicensed software on their computers"
>>
>> http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/02/12
> bsa_us_unlicensed_software_claims/
>
> According to their own info, all this money goes to BSA and not
> the software companie that sponsor them.
So now we know the /real/ 'thieves'.
> They should sue to agree as part of the settlement that all the money
> should only go to the licensors and not the BSA conspiracy.
It's the same with the record companies. It's just a man-made industry, a
middleman, an exploiter, a leech.
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