Anti-software piracy group the Business Software Alliance is offering a $36,000 reward to anyone who informs on employers who use illegal or unlicensed software.
The BSA already has an online hotline for people to report the use of illegal software within U.K. organizations, but it has now doubled the reward from 10,000 pounds ($18,000) to 20,000 pounds ($36,000) until the end of June this year. The BSA said it opened 420 investigations in the last year as a result of these hotline tip-offs, the majority of which came from people in IT. (more…)