Business Software Alliance (BSA) is to find themselves short one Member, such as Kaspersky Lab has announced that they would not withdraw from the Alliance of software manufacturers.
Kaspersky Lab is aware of public controversy and debate that sparked by stopping Online piracy Act (SOPA). Kaspersky Lab is sometimes mentioned in the discussion as a member of the Business Software Alliance (BSA), which supports the initiative of SOPA.
Kaspersky Lab would like to clarify that the company did not participate in the elaboration or discussion SOPA initiative and does not support it. In addition, the company believes that the initiative SOPA may actually be counter-productive to public interest, and decided to stop the BSA membership as of January 1, 2012.