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Christian Engström
AS Profile The issue of piracy has never been more hotly debated, especially with the recent legal case around the Pirate Bay file-sharing site. So it is apt that the deputy chairman of the Swedish Pirate Party,... [08 Oct 2009]
£1.49bn: The price of pirate desktop software in the UK
News Software companies lost £1.49bn to piracy in the UK last year - and that's before the impact of the economic downturn. More than a quarter of the desktop software installed in the UK last year - 27 per... [13 May 2009]
Photos: Top 10 Xmas presents for the tech team
Photo Here's a USB hub which doubles as a pop-up Pirate game - handy for killing time while waiting for that system reboot. It uses software from Audacity to preserve the authentic record sound complete with... [01 Dec 2008]
Steve Ballmer on a future in the cloud
News But when it's [available at] $15 a month, per user, there is no reason to pirate. Ballmer called for developers to write applications that can be migrated seamlessly from the desktop to the 'cloud', a move that is in... [10 Jul 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 07.12.07
Round-Up Meanwhile, an equal and opposite reaction to Microsoft's bold claim is that piracy rates are so much lower for Vista because nobody actually wants to pirate it. Hell no, it's still bullish about the success of the most... [07 Dec 2007]
Photos: IBM lifts the lid on web 2.0 tech
Photo By taking information from various databases, QEDWiki allows the freight company create a mash-up to locate ships, see what the weather is like in the vicinity of the different vessels and monitor pirate activity in the... [07 Aug 2007]
Minority Report: Macs gaining enterprise cred
Comment First and foremost is the Mac brand, which is founded to some extent on an anti-corporate image - the pirate flag flying above the Cupertino office where the first Mac was designed is a potent and enduring image. [19 Jul 2007]
Possible pirates targeted by Windows update
News For machines that get the new "maybe pirate" reading, a window pops up that says "unable to complete genuine Windows validation". The software behemoth said the new indeterminate reading can occur, for... [28 Feb 2007]
Leader: How to cut piracy overnight
Leader Certainly in the enterprise space there is an alternative which could effectively negate the problem of pirate software: stop selling CDs, move everything online and host the software... [19 May 2006]
Microsoft shuts down '£3.5m' software pirate
News Microsoft has announced that a UK-based software pirate who allegedly traded more than £3.5m of counterfeit Microsoft software has finally ceased trading. William Ling was arrested and... [19 May 2006]
eBay 'scare-story' sparks row with Which?
News Earlier this year eBay faced criticism for being slow to shut down sales of pirate software and for not acting proactively on closing such sales. eBay has hit back at claims from consumer magazine... [27 Feb 2006]
Apple warns off OS-pirates with a poem
News He'd do better to pirate 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... [17 Feb 2006]
Microsoft launches 'terrorist-fuelling' piracy crackdown
News Michala Alexander, head of anti-piracy at Microsoft UK, said 1,500 copies of Office 2000 Pro cost just £30,000 to buy from a pirate but have a street value of £300,000. Microsoft has launched a new... [16 Feb 2006]
Would you grass up a software pirate?
News Software theft is not viewed as a crime by most people, with eight out of 10 saying they would not grass up a work colleague for online software theft, according to a survey by the Federation Against... [14 Feb 2006]
Software piracy jumps to $185m as industry fights back
News Microsoft continues to be the top software brand to pirate, followed in the first half of the year by Sony, Adobe, Autodesk and Macromedia, Gieschen said. Software counterfeiting... [05 Oct 2005]
