SIAA unveils online auction certification

Washington DC – The Software and Information Industry Association has unveiled a new program for software resellers that agree to not sell pirated or stolen programs. The Certified Software Reseller program is aimed at software vendors that ply their trade on Internet auction sites and is basically a “Boy Scouts Honor” type of promise to be good.

The SIAA, like the Business Software Association, sues companies that pirate and sells illegal software. The association is now focusing its sights on the online auction market saying, “Some of the largest and most damaging software counterfeiting and piracy problems occur on Internet auction sites.”

Participants in the program get a blue thumbs up logo that they can attach to their auction listings. Getting the logo is actually pretty easy and companies just have to agree to not sell any stolen, pirated or counterfeit software. Anyone that is caught violating this promise would “permanently forfeit” the right to use the logo.

That ought to show them pirates.