Need a bit of extra Christmas cash? Grass up your boss, says BSA

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

“Research released today by the Business Software Alliance (BSA) reveals that nearly three quarters (70%) of London workers are willing to shop their bosses for improper business practices and one in five (20%) London workers would be even more willing to report their management for extra cash in the run up to Christmas,” states the BSA press release that landed in my inbox today.

Which is handy, because the dear old BSA would like nothing more than for employees to shaft their bosses in the run-up to Christmas, launching as it has “an advertising and marketing campaign to encourage employees in London to report their companies if they think they are using illegal software.”

Is it me, or is there something deeply unsavoury about the BSA trying to claim the moral high-ground on the use of illegal software on the one hand, and then using Christmas and the recession as bait to encourage employees to grass up their bosses on the other?

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