Eric, I love the Sample Policy's that you have on your website and plan to use them at the company I work for. What I need to know is are the figures that you state in the Software Policy for fines actual figures from the US Copyright Act? And where are those figures stated? Thanks again for a great site. Jonathan Dale Jonathan, Great question and the answer is that these are actual figures from the US Copyright Act. The easiest place to check out this information is http://www.spa.org/piracy/copyright/code.asp. Also, if you are interested in the annual Software Piracy Report published by the SIIA (Software & Information Industry Association - formerly the SPA, The Software Publishers Association). After reading this report, you can see why it is important to pay for software. The software industry suffers from 90% piracy in some countries of the world and this devalues both the efforts of the software’s developers and the entire industry. Thanks for the question, we all need to make sure our company pays for software. The fallout for IT professionals is huge if the executive staff decides to hang us out to dry and claim they knew nothing of the problem. We in IT then end up being punished. Eric Svetcov |