Increased popularity of pirated software creates legal liability and bandwidth headaches for corporations, warns Websense Inc.; Pirated software and hacker sites on the web recently jump more than 240 percent.

M2 Presswire, October, 2001

M2 PRESSWIRE-31 October 2001-Websense: Increased popularity of pirated software creates legal liability and bandwidth headaches for corporations, warns Websense Inc.; Pirated software and hacker sites on the web recently jump more than 240 percent (C)1994-2001 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:31102001 Pirated software on the Web may be free, but it comes at a huge price to corporations.

Websense Inc. (NASDAQ: WBSN), the world's leading employee Internet management (EIM) software company, reports that the number of pirated software and hacking Web sites has spiked more than 240 percent in the last year alone, now totaling 5,400 sites representing 800,000 Web pages. According to Wordtracker, pirated software terms have risen to the top 15 in recent months,...