Cloud Computing: Piracy Killer Or New Infringement Avenue?
August 23, 2012
Grazed from CRN. Author: Rob Wright.
As more applications move to the cloud and software publishers embrace the SaaS model, software piracy will decline and eventually become a thing of the past.
Or, maybe it won’t. Maybe users will simply find new ways — trading SaaS account login credentials, or setting up "dark clouds" — to get around paying for software.
A debate has been sparked by new data from the Business Software Alliance (BSA), which surveyed nearly 15,000 PC users in 33 countries; the study did not include smartphones or tablets. The survey shows that 42 percent of respondents say they share login credentials for paid cloud services inside their organizations…
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