eBay slammed over pirated software
A leading anti-piracy body has accused eBay over counterfeit software, claiming in a new report that “at least 90 percent of all software available on eBay is illegal.”
The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) is an association for software companies whose anti-piracy division acts rather like the UK’s Federation Against Software Theft (FAST) in its efforts to combat software piracy in the workplace. Members include AOL, Adobe, IBM, Intel, Novell, Quark, and Sun, among many others.
During 2007, the SIIA received 427 reports of alleged corporate end-user piracy, and in 17 percent of the cases judged there was sufficient evidence to pursue charges.
By Tom Jowitt, Techworld - full article