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How a disgruntled former employee can make a few bucks
From: "Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:14:01 -0500
Just saw this BSA Reward Program advertised on Slashdot: https://reporting.bsa.org/usa/rewardsconditions.aspx BSA End User Reward Program Terms and Conditions Thank you for your interest in the BSA End User Reward Program. The Business Software Alliance (BSA) offers rewards to encourage people with information about software piracy in the workplace to come forward and to ensure that those reports are as complete and accurate as possible. Please read the following terms and conditions carefully. They state the details of BSA's End User Reward Program offer and what you need to do to accept the offer and become eligible for a reward under such terms and conditions. Terms and Conditions 1. The BSA End User Reward Program offer applies only to reports of business end user piracy taking place in the United States or Canada - piracy committed by a company or organization when it installs unlicensed software on computers that it owns or leases for its employees to use in their work. * It does not extend to piracy committed by individuals installing unlicensed software on their own computers for home or other personal use outside of their employment. 2. To accept BSA's reward offer and become eligible for a possible reward, you must ask to be included in the BSA End User Reward Program at the time you make your report, and you must agree to all of these Terms and Conditions. * You can do so by completing the online Reporting Form available on www.bsa.org, which requires you to confirm your acceptance of these Terms and Conditions. * Or, if you make your report through our toll-free hotline (888 NO PIRACY), you may accept by asking to be included in the BSA End User Reward Program and then replying to a copy of these terms and conditions that will be e-mailed to you. * If you make a report without completing a Reporting Form and confirming your acceptance of these Terms and Conditions, you may not later claim a reward for that report. 3. Your report must be complete and accurate, including your correct name, address, telephone number, e-mail address and dates of employment (if applicable) at the organization you are reporting, as well as the details of what software is being pirated and how you know this. * The information you provide must not have been previously known by or reported to BSA or its member companies. You must not have already reported the information to any other anti-piracy organization. * To be eligible, you must not be the person who installed the unlicensed software onto the reported organization's computers, unless you were directed by your supervisor to do so. You also must not have directed another person to install the unlicensed software, unless you were directed by your supervisor to do so. * To be eligible, you must not be violating any valid contract or other legal obligation by making your report. BSA may condition the payment of any reward on its review of any contract that you have. You agree to supply any such contract to BSA. If a claim is made against BSA or any of its member companies on the basis that you breached any contract or other valid legal obligation in reporting piracy to BSA, you agree to indemnify and hold BSA and/or any of its member companies harmless against that claim (including their actual attorney's fees and costs).
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