Note: these comments by Richard Neff were excerpted in Latin America Advisor; Neff as former Chairman of the Business Software Alliance was asked to comment on BSA’s Annual Worldwide Piracy Report. In 1989 when I was an in-house lawyer at a Business Software Alliance member company (Ashton-Tate), and BSA director, I spearheaded the establishment of more than 20 antipiracy programs for the BSA in Latin America and the Pacific Rim. Piracy rates in Latin America were above 90%. Most countries lacked copyright laws that protected computer software. It seemed that only US Embassies had legitimate software. Over the next decade,…