property piracy
RSS property piracyIntellectual Property Rights Protection Applied to Electronic Commerce and Multimedia
White Paper But this kind of data is very vulnerable to piracy and their protection becomes a complicated work. Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) are directly affected by this situation due to the impossibility to prevent digital copies and transmission... [03 Jul 2008]
Software Piracy and the Law
White Paper But those who copy software without authorization are, in fact, stealing someone else’s property — their intellectual property. Most people would never consider stealing something that did not belong to them. [03 Jul 2008]
ISPs face fresh threat from file-sharing laws
News The government has renewed its threat to introduce laws to force ISPs to control online music and film piracy and file-sharing. A music industry survey this week found that the average teenager's MP3 player contains more than 800 illegally copied... [18 Jun 2008]
The Brampton Factor: Licensed to bill
Comment Software piracy may well be a very bad thing. Microsoft has said it alone is losing £250m annually in the UK from piracy. There is a lot of talk about the awfulness of software piracy but little seems to be said about the gross inconveniences that... [07 May 2008]
Europe: Don't ban internet file-sharers
News A parliamentary statement read: "[The European Parliament] underlines that on the battle against digital piracy, the solution should not be to criminalise consumers who do not intend to make profit out of their actions. [14 Apr 2008]
Microsoft changes M&A strategy with Yahoo! bid
News Vista: Piracy rates half the level of XP, says Microsoft David Mitchell, senior VP at analyst Ovum, said: "They've [Microsoft] typically gone for a number of intellectual property driven acquisitions. [05 Feb 2008]
Woman hit with $220k bill in file-sharing case
News When the Riaa does sue individuals, settlements and judgments are generally reinvested into the group's anti-piracy programme, said a Riaa spokesman. He said the music industry has no interest in bankrupting music fans but has a duty to curb the... [05 Oct 2007]
Brampton Factor: Bringing tech to the developing world
Comment If published figures are at all accurate and applicable to Microsoft products, it follows that reducing global piracy to US levels would almost double Microsoft's gross revenues. Of course, reducing piracy might actually produce a negligible volume... [17 Jul 2007]
Microsoft battles reseller pirates
News Software piracy resulted in a loss of $34bn worldwide in 2005, a $1.6bn increase over 2004, according to a study commissioned by the Business Software Alliance. One of the largest offenders, EDirectSoftware.com, has already agreed to settle Redmond... [03 Apr 2007]
Yahoo! China sued by record labels
News China spokesman told Reuters: "Yahoo China respects intellectual property rights and supports the fight against music piracy. China over alleged music piracy. A music industry body is launching a series of lawsuits against Yahoo! [07 Mar 2007]
Russia hits out at Microsoft licensing
News The Russian government has hit out at Microsoft, claiming the software giant's overly strict and costly licensing regime is to blame for the high rates of consumer piracy in the country. Russia is in anti-piracy group the Business Software Alliance... [16 Feb 2007]
Photos: Outsourcing to Russia
Photo In terms of consumer piracy the deputy minister also hit out at vendors such as Microsoft for overly strict and costly licensing policies. Milovantsev admitted intellectual property protection is a "very serious problem for Russia" but said when it... [15 Feb 2007]
ISPs asked to cut off music pirates
News The independent Gowers Intellectual Property Review, published in December 2006, recommended that ISPs and the music industry voluntarily agree on a procedure to remove users engaging in piracy by the end of this year, or face government... [18 Jan 2007]
eBay pirates cough up $100,000 in ill-gotten gains
News Defendant Kevin Liu said: "If I had known that Siia was checking eBay for software piracy, and if I had known the software was pirated and that I'd have to pay such a high fine, I would have never sold the pirated software to begin with. [27 Nov 2006]
Agenda Setters: Where are they now... Wen Jiabao
News Wen, along with president Hu Jintao, are heavily promoting China's counter stance on piracy, citing intellectual property rights as one of the most crucial issues for foreign investment and China's development. [13 Sep 2006]
