Have the BSA Members been getting “value for money” from their annual fees when their annual survey results show minimal change in piracy rates over the last 7 to 10 years?

They claim “Lowering software piracy by just 10 percentage points during the next four years would create nearly 500,000 new jobs and pump $140 billion into ailing economies.” Source - BSA Annual Global Piracy Study 2009

Hang on a minute, you've been reading the tagline “10 point reduction during the next 4 years” in the BSA Survey Executive Summary year after year after year. Isn't it time that something changed?

We acknowledge the rate of piracy has reduced in some countries & regions, but nowhere near the 10 point drops claimed in each Executive Summary for each BSA annual report.

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  SAM & ITAM,
•  Software Audit Tools,
•  Whistleblowers,
•  Accounting Systems,
•  Home Grown Audit Tools,
•  Experienced (or inexperienced) staff,
•  Complacency and
•  the GFC (are you kidding?).

The key issue for business is, you might well be expending (= wasting) a huge amount of money every year due to the failure of the software industry to come up with a solution to the problem of piracy.

To add “insult to injury”, some of you are then being “caught”” and having to pay a 6 figure settlement sum plus a multiplier value at a "rule of thumb" rate of 3 to 4 times the settlement sum for being caught with having more software installed than what you are able to prove was acquired legitimately. Read more at  It's Time for a Change to the Game Plan!