Can't say I feel any solidarity for professionals or companies using pirated software to make money. That's on a whole different level. Not that piracy is good (well, if everybody pirated britney spears and that whole dumb producer-created thing, they'd disappear sooner rather than later).

Eee! Does the BSA speak Corrie Talk?
I dae nae ken howt ta cypher ta Meagher maths, boot I'd aver smarter traffic signals wude increase tha whole petrols kit & kaboedle. I'll get chuffed for an Advocaat! Wound too much the Zenitphobics, because, lo, I'm no bovvered; Aliens are me bothers! Naot to farcial recognitions to mature, why nowt traffic signals? Made great block after block during this great run to fetch a wee cuppa tha gods running ova! But how's to bloomin eck is me? No much feather me little smurfs.

"my mind was filled with wonder when the evening headlines read...
I work in his factory,
And I curse the life Im living
And I curse my poverty
And I wish that I could be
Richard Corey"

I'll go have a snortin lie down.

The Business Software Alliance is funded by software companies, including Apple, Microsoft and Symantec.

Is that to say that some of those hypothetical 13,622 new jobs will include software testers throughout the companies' software release cycle? Cuz the aforementioned companies certainly release some unstable products that aren't even worthy of licensing...

Surely the BSA don't have a right of entry? Even the cops need a search warrant.

*knock* *knock*
"Hi, we're the BSA, we've come to audit you."

*Slam*

In fact I would love them to come and try at my office. the PCI accreditation we have expressly forbids connection of outside machines on the network, or the running of unauthorised software. As for entry into the server room... I think not!