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GUEST OPINION: Establishing and maintaining a robust means of backing up your business’s critical data is an age-old best practice for enterprise IT, although strategies for doing so are still far from perfect.

An inside whistle blower dobbed his Western Australian employer into the Business Software Alliance for using unlicensed software – piracy.

It used to be called piracy – now it’s the ‘influx of personal devices into the workplace’. Whatever it is called it amounts to using unlicensed, unpaid, software and that is stealing.

Disgruntled employees are the most likely to dob in corporate software pirate - as Australian business has found. Western Australia set the record this year.

A Victorian IT company in breach of copyright law has paid $72,000 in damages for the use of unlicensed software programs owned by Adobe and Microsoft.