BSA plans to double efforts to reduce software piracy this year
29/04/2011
The Business Software Alliance (BSA) announced today that during this year the actions of inspection in Peruvian companies are expected to duplicate in order to keep trying to reduce the usage of illegal software programs that nowadays reaches 70%.
During 2010, the BSA developed a series of informative campaigns such as “We are watching you”, the complaints program “Stop Piracy” and the direct contact with more than 17.000 companies in order to alert about the risks involving the use of illegal software.
Also in coordination with the National Institute for the Defense of Competition and Protection of Intellectual Property, the respective steps that were taken permitted to accomplish a total of 228 inspection visits in Lima and other important cities in the country. The legislation permits Indecopi to initiate processes and impose administrative sanctions, such as the temporary or definitive closure of the offender establishment, the seizure of equipment and accessories involved in the illegal act, and the imposition of fines of up to 180 Tax Units (UIT), equivalent to 648 thousand suns to the offenders.
The BSA has settled as a goal to increase these inspections in order to contribute in reducing the piracy rates that represent a threat to the jobs and revenues that generate the Peruvian software industry.
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29/04/2011
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