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RSS pirateThis time in '99: Microsoft accused of licensing violation
News What is more, the assumption that it is the intention of every small business user to pirate software is insulting. This is how the original story broke on 23 February, 1999: A West London businessman is threatening to... [21 Feb 2000]
Thomson software to fight multimedia pirates
News Thomson-CSF and French disk manufacturer MPO have partnered to develop technology to fight the pirate copying of CDs and DVDs. Called Tages, the system tags the CDs with sensors that alter the play of the disk when an... [21 Feb 2000]
Microsoft to sue over pirated software
News Lawsuits have been filed against three Oregon-based companies accused of selling pirate Microsoft software. Microsoft is portraying the move is part of an ongoing legal effort to halt the spread of companies that... [23 Sep 1999]
Thailand cracks down on software piracy
News Yothin Krutpong won the dubious honour of being the first Thai software pirate to be put behind bars. Thailand's intellectual property court has delivered a landmark verdict in the war against software piracy, by handing... [05 Jul 1999]
Texan pirate gets four-year prison term
News A Texan software smuggler has been jailed in Germany for four years for importing illegal software worth £40m. In an investigation dating back to December 1996, law enforcers uncovered a counterfeit manufacturing plant in Cambridge run... [16 Jun 1999]
CD Media found guilty of piracy charges
News A US court has found CD Media guilty of dealing in pirate Microsoft software. The judge ordered the software distributor to stop advertising unlicensed products originally destined for academics in the US and Canada. [24 Mar 1999]
Microsoft accused of licensing violation
News What is more, the assumption that it is the intention of every small business user to pirate software is insulting. A West London businessman is threatening to take Microsoft to court over allegedly violating the End... [22 Feb 1999]
BSA busts Danish piracy ring
News The piracy watchdog worked with Danish police and the country's National Computer Crime Unit to uncover 125,000 pirate CD Roms from a fabrication plant. Only 24 hours after Microsoft steamrollered $14m worth of... [20 Jan 1999]
Microsoft UK finds fake CDs worth £20m on doorstep
News The remaining 44,000 pirate CDs are still unaccounted for. Microsoft UK, working with Berkshire police and local Trading Standards Officers, seized counterfeit Office 97 CDs worth £20m over the Christmas holiday. [11 Jan 1999]
Microsoft takes legal action against alleged software pirate
News Microsoft has launched a private prosecution against a man caught by German customs authorities with a lorry load of counterfeit software. Action is also being taken against companies associated with the man, which allegedly make up a... [12 Aug 1998]
In brief: German officials seize pirate software
News An American known only as 'S' is said to be behind the pirate ring, which runs from the UK. German authorities have made Europe's largest ever seizure of pirated Microsoft software. Customs officers are believed to have... [11 Aug 1998]
