piracy
RSS piracyLeader: Piracy crackdown no good for China
Leader The PR spin on this has been that the two discussed software piracy and intellectual property. China has to be seen to be taking a harsh, no-nonsense approach to this but it would be counter-productive at this stage for... [21 Apr 2006]
Piracy-Free Video Distribution With Microsoft Windows Media Technologies
White Paper The challenge was how: DVDs, video CDs and tapes would require an expensive sales channel and also pose piracy problems; streaming video would exclude millions of dial-up customers. Now, Shigram is distributing videos... [06 Oct 2008]
Vista: Piracy rates half the level of XP, says Microsoft
News Microsoft said it's seeing piracy rates for Windows Vista that are half those of Windows XP. The decline in piracy rates is largely due to the fact Vista is much tougher to fake than XP. Microsoft VP,... [04 Dec 2007]
Piracy crackdown an "empty gesture"
News The massive police operation to crack down on software piracy will ultimately fail unless software suppliers do more to protect their own code. Codenamed Buccaneer, the operation was the largest global... [13 Dec 2001]
Desktop Linux is Windows piracy aide
News Price, of course, is a huge motivator in piracy. It is likely that Microsoft would prefer the initial OS on a new PC to be a Windows variant rather than Linux, even if piracy were to continue," the... [30 Sep 2004]
Seven years inside for piracy website owner
News The owner of a software piracy website has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison - the longest sentence ever handed down for software piracy. Justice Department and industry officials called... [11 Sep 2006]
'Bandido' to be extradited from Oz as part of piracy probe
News The suspected leader of one of the internet's oldest piracy groups has been indicted and his extradition from Australia is being sought, a US federal prosecutor said on Wednesday. A federal grand jury in Connecticut... [13 Mar 2003]
Software piracy hurting UK business, claims BSA
News Despite the high-tech piracy of music the Business Software Alliance has called upon users and industry leaders not to forget the ongoing issue of software piracy, which is costing UK businesses £860m. [07 Jul 2004]
Compliance laws helping to combat software piracy
News In small business there are millions of customers so therefore there is a higher percentage of piracy. But Baker argued that new protection measures have helped drive down piracy of Office 2003,... [23 Sep 2004]
'Draconian' anti-piracy heads for EU vote
News Intellectual property: Enforcing the rights, measures and procedures", known as the Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive, is primarily aimed at cracking down on organised piracy and counterfeiting in the... [20 Feb 2004]
Anti-piracy team goes on net offensive in Asia
News A prominent anti-software piracy group has begun to target Asia-Pacific websites and users of peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing networks, looking for those who trade in illegal software. The action was prompted by the high... [05 Jun 2003]
Apple to return 'piracy tax' to iPod buyers
News Apple has announced it will refund the 'piracy tax' the Canadian government put on every iPod sold in the country. Although the Canadian Supreme Court ruled last month that the tax - a levy put on all recordable blank... [09 Aug 2005]
Microsoft tees up anti-piracy tool update
News Microsoft will soon start pushing out a new version of its controversial Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) Notifications anti-piracy tool to Windows XP users. WGA Notifications, part of Microsoft's effort to combat... [29 Nov 2006]
Windows piracy check: Foiled again
News Microsoft's efforts to fight counterfeiting have hit another snag with the posting of a new method claimed to get around a Windows piracy check. Microsoft last week made the Windows piracy check... [08 Aug 2005]
€120m software piracy ring shut down
News One of the largest internet piracy rings in the world has been shut down in a police operation which resulted in the arrest of 181 people. Beth Scott, vice president of EMEA at the Business Software Alliance, said: "This... [16 Jun 2003]
