The joint enterprise was headed by Software Publishers Association founder Ken Wasch and operated out of the SPA's existing offices.

[2] The SPA was active in lobbying, industry research and anti-piracy efforts,[2] and was behind the 1992 Don't Copy That Floppy campaign.

[4] By 1995, the SPA had over 1,100 software companies in its membership[5] and according to Wired was among "the most powerful computer-related trade groups" before its merger with the Information Industry Association.

[10] The video for the campaign, starring M. E. Hart as "MC Double Def DP", was filmed at Cardozo High School in Washington, D.C. and produced by cooperation between the SPA, the Educational Section Anti-Piracy Committee, and the Copyright Protection Fund, in association with Vilardi Films.

[16] Notable past winners include companies such as Adobe, BrainPOP, Google, Knewton, McGraw-Hill Education, Jigsaw, Netsuite, Red Hat, Rosetta Stone, Salesforce.com, Digimind, Scribe Software, Vocus, WSJ.com, codemantra,[17] IXL Learning, itslearning, and more.