BSA apparently not 100% Evil
Posted by Matthew on Tuesday January 14, 2003 @07:36PM
from the Shades-of-Gray dept.
Matthew writes: According to this article in the New York Times, The Business Software Alliance (BSA) has convinced the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) not to pursue legislation to force technology companies to include Digital Rights Management Technology in their products, causing wide spread confusion amongst geeks, who now have to admit that the BSA may somehow not be 100% evil.
The BSA (the software industry’s anti-piracy bulldog known for invading the offices of companies whose disgruntled former employees have cried piracy) has long been considered equally as evil as RIAA and the MPAA (all 100% evil as measured by the SlashNOT Evilometer, which is calibrated to the NIST Evilometric standard). Current measurements show that the BSA has dropped down to 80% Evil–just 5% more Evil than Microsoft. And because the RIAA agreed to drop DRM demands, they are currently measuring 90% Evil. The MPAA still measures 100% Evil.