Software piracy -- The buck stops where?; Ignorance is no ally in UK law, says Business Software Alliance.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-9 October 2000-BSA: Software piracy -- The buck stops where?; Ignorance is no ally in UK law, says Business Software Alliance (C)1994-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:09102000 Four out of five people don`t know that chief executives and managing directors are held personally responsible for software piracy in the UK - less than one in ten know that company directors risk a prison sentence for using unlicensed software.

Working for Business Software Alliance (BSA), ICM Research found that nearly half of people mistakenly believe that IT managers are responsible for software legality. More than one in ten people have no idea of who might be responsible. This information has prompted BSA to conduct its first ever annual software audit...