The UK’s Business Software Alliance (BSA) has announced a new offer of up to $32,000 to any employee reporting software piracy violations. The program has been in place for several years, but was previously limited to $16,000.

“The BSA is combating software piracy by tapping into the rising threat from insiders – disgruntled employees – dealing with layoffs and budget cutbacks as a result of the unsettled global economy,” writes SearchSecurity.com’s Robert Westervelt.

“Software piracy has grown to be an international concern,” Westervelt writes. “Cybercriminals have been known to pirate software and sell it using legitimate looking Websites…The BSA estimates that globally 41 percent of all software installed on computers is obtained illegally. It concludes that as a result of piracy, the software industry is losing $53 billion annually.”

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