How a disgruntled former employee can make a few bucks

["Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>]

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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