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Article: Florida-Based Insurance Company Settles With BSA for Unlicensed Software Installations, Agrees to Pay $70,000.
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- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- September 16, 2009
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Bankers Warranty Group Inc., an insurance product and services company based in St. Petersburg, FL, is learning the hard way that having installations of unlicensed software on company computers costs more money than it saves (see also Business Software Alliance).
The Business Software Alliance (BSA), which represents the world's commercial software industry, announced that Bankers Warranty Group Inc. paid $70,000 to settle claims that it had unlicensed copies of Adobe, Microsoft and Symantec software installed on its computers. As part of the settlement agreement, Bankers Warranty Group Inc. agreed to delete all unlicensed copies of software on its computers, ...