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RSS piratesThe Weekly Round-Up: 18.08.06
Round-Up While the Round-Up can't help thinking this is what happens at AOL if you go watch Pirates of the Caribbean the night before a company brainstorming session, it seems the folks at AOL are genuinely convinced X marks the... [18 Aug 2006]
Photos: China's street pirates
Photo This is Shenzhen's electronics area . There are hundreds of shops that sell computers, software and electronic components. And all the way down this strip people sell pirated software and DVDs. This computer market, just off the strip,... [14 Aug 2006]
Opinion: China's IPR woes
Comment Photos of China's street pirates here. This is to give pirates less time to copy goods. IPR is the defining issue of the next five years," says Micah Truman, CEO of Beijing marketing company MadeforChina. [14 Aug 2006]
French DRM-busting law strokes Apple, hurts P2P
News Instead of a €150 or €38 fine for up- or downloading music respectively, pirates now face being convicted of a criminal offence and potentially facing several years in prison or a fine of €500,000. France's controversial... [31 Jul 2006]
Would-be World Cup pirates warned 'you're being watched'
News A London law firm has contacted an undisclosed number of ISPs and websites to warn them not to host any illegal streams of World Cup football matches. Baker & McKenzie sent out letters to websites warning them they will be monitored... [09 Jun 2006]
Q&A: Microsoft UK head of anti-piracy Michala Alexander
Comment The pirates follow a strategy on the whole - they maximise their sales of the previous OS to be released, so at the moment we are seeing an increase in XP and Office 2003 as we move towards Vista. As the head of... [22 May 2006]
Want to ditch those software licence blues?
News A move away from packaged software, with CDs in shrink-wrapped boxes, towards applications which are accessed online, hosted by the manufacturer would mean fewer opportunities for pirates for whom copying a CD is still... [22 May 2006]
Leader: How to cut piracy overnight
Leader The likes of Adobe, McAfee, Microsoft and Symantec, among the worst hit by piracy, should be looking at how easy it is for them to produce, ship and sell CDs - and realise it is that ease which plays into the hands of the... [19 May 2006]
Microsoft shuts down '£3.5m' software pirate
News Microsoft's news follows an announcement on Wednesday from software giants McAfee and Symantec that they also are aggressively targeting software pirates selling counterfeit software on eBay. Microsoft has announced that... [19 May 2006]
AV giants target eBay software fraud
News Two of the world's largest antivirus software vendors are launching legal action against a group of software pirates selling illegal versions of well-known security software on eBay, as part of a major crackdown on... [17 May 2006]
Leader: Getting IT right isn't child's play
Leader It turns them into digital pirates, stealing music and video, and helps them communicate with unsavoury people the world over, warn others. Much has been said about the malign influence of technology the young. [06 Apr 2006]
EC names innovative IT prize winners
News France's Advestigo won for its AdvestiSearch product, a digital content monitoring system for deterring media pirates; Netherlands-based Cavendish for its Nanomech embedded flash memory technology that can withstand... [23 Mar 2006]
Opinion: What a year it's been for e-crime
Comment It promises to be a gathering that illustrates the global nature of a struggle to prevent serious and organised crime dominating the internet in much the same way as pirates threatened the ocean trade routes of the 17th... [15 Mar 2006]
Google in court for copying porno
News The photo publisher says it's plagued by copyright pirates who pay its $25.50 monthly fee and then reproduce its copyright images on sites that are indexed by Google and incorporated in its image search feature. [22 Feb 2006]
Apple warns off OS-pirates with a poem
News Apple has gone all poetic in a warning to would-be software pirates. User sites have been reporting that the Mac maker has embedded a poem in a file likely to be discovered by software pirates attempting... [17 Feb 2006]
