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Microsoft quashes Office 97 piracy fears
News Microsoft has dismissed claims it has encouraged dealers to pirate Office 97 by allowing Dell and Gateway to sell Office 97 upgrades for £20. A Microsoft spokesman said the upgrades were in the form of vouchers for buyers of new systems with pre...
[January 22, 1997, 11:01]
Don't throw buyers' rights overboard
Leader The Business Software Alliance (BSA) has swung from the rigging once more brandishing an incisive survey to cut down the pirate menace once and for all. Avast! As usual the BSA has tried to sharpen its invective with talk of pirates and IP crime.
[May 18, 2005, 13:30]
A Year Ago: MS dismisses Office piracy fears
News Microsoft has dismissed claims it has encouraged dealers to pirate Office 97 by allowing Dell and Gateway to sell Office 97 upgrades for £20. A Microsoft spokesman said the upgrades were in the form of vouchers for buyers of new systems with pre...
[January 22, 1998, 9:39]
Firms warned on employee music piracy
News Businesses that allow workers to download pirate MP3 tracks in the office are at risk of costly lawsuits from a recording-industry crackdown. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is threatening to sue individual surfers who download...
[July 4, 2003, 15:13]
Microsoft trials licence-checking programme
Talkback People, therefore, pirate the software rather than use the free alternative. The truth is Microsoft software, of late at least, is superior to Open Office / Linux. It is just a shame the Microsoft has to waste its money developing anti-theft...
[September 21, 2004, 21:48]
Smartphone 'Trojan' found to be code flaw
News The 'Trojan' SMS dialler infecting mobile phones running pirate copies of the "Mosquitos" game is not actually a Trojan at all but rather a botched copy-protection feature of the original game. Earlier this week mobile operating system maker...
[August 12, 2004, 14:35]
Judge orders identification of file swapper
News A federal judge on Tuesday ordered Verizon Communications to disclose the identity of an alleged peer-to-peer pirate in a legal decision that could make it easier for the music industry to crack down on file swapping.
[January 22, 2003, 8:00]
Global piracy purge nets 200 PCs
Talkback I can download records and remixes (pirate) and try the whole thing and if I'm still playing it in a week or two, I will go and buy it! I buy more cd's now than ever before, mainly due to winmx. It saves me the trouble of buying an album only to...
[April 25, 2004, 11:36]
Police raid software pirates
News More than 100,000 pieces of counterfeit video CDs (VCDs), CD-ROMs and DVDs were seized, and 15 men were arrested, as police launched raids on three pirate syndicates on Saturday. The raids, which involved 40 officers, lasted eight hours.
[October 15, 2001, 16:59]
MyColors Mobile Theme Bundle 1 (BB)
Downloads Change the graphics on every screen.4 Premium BlackBerry Themes: Texas Hold'Em, Pirate, Omega, Abracadabra made specifically for each BlackBerry device/screen size. Completely transform the way your BlackBerry looks.
[October 2, 2007, 8:00]
Government warns music industry to adapt to Net
News In his report on the new digital music economy, Culture Secretary Chris Smith warns that pirate MP3 Web sites and foreign competition are in danger of draining investment from the UK industry. The government is forecasting the downfall of the UK...
[April 5, 2000, 9:13]
The Sims 2 Castaway
Downloads Lagoons, jungles, beaches and hidden pirate treasures await you. Lose yourself on a remote island with The Sims 2: Castaway! Create, customize and guide your Sim to explore, survive and thrive on an uncharted tropical paradise.
[March 30, 2009, 8:00]
Latest threat to music industry: the postal service?
News But, the report notes, the system could also be a highly effective way to pirate music. La La is a savvy new music site for helping people swap CDs via the US Postal Service, according to a new report.
[August 3, 2006, 11:05]
Adobe's pricing and upgrade policies share some of the blame.
Talkback They have opened a massive market in counterfiting, where places like Ebay are totally saturated with high quality Chinese fakes containing pirate software. Adobe hasn't helped itself with an outrageous non-US territory pricing policy, and...
[June 17, 2009, 15:44]
Xarlor - Infinite Expanse demo
Downloads The problem: Every two-bit thief, pirate, and black marketeer is in the area as well. Your name is John Blake, and your mission is to fly to the Infinite Expanse and grab some samples of high-energy-yield Corbamite ore.
[February 5, 2000, 2:28]
Insider Dealings: All The Gossip That's Fit To Read
News Quick as a pirate running hot-foot, he fired up his Nokia Communicator 9000 smart-phone and searched the Web for more data. "These days, you get so much stuff free on magazine cover disks, Web downloads and e-mails that it's hard to keep track," he...
[September 20, 1997, 8:00]
News Burst: Jail term for MP3 pirates predicted
News The source, who requested anonymity, believes the American courts are under pressure from an increasingly litigious RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) which is currently suing MP3.com, to make an example of a digital pirate.
[May 15, 2000, 13:07]
DVD industry's fallback plan: Sue!
News The) defendants have disclosed .proprietary information on their Internet Web sites as part of a scheme to defeat DVD encryption software which thus enables users to illegally pirate copies of DVD videos," stated the complaint.
[December 29, 1999, 11:55]
Consoles slashed in price
Talkback Personally I now download all my PS2, I'm no pirate normally but modern prices (while being kept artifically high) are just a complete rip-off. Its the games, not the units which are overpriced. The console companies keep slashing the prices of...
[August 19, 2004, 16:28]
Chinese whispers across London airwaves
Blog Radio waves don't stop at embassy walls - so if the ambassador gets it into their head that they want to start a pirate radio station, there's nothing much to stop 'em. It is a useful convention in international affairs that anywhere in the world...
[January 21, 2009, 18:02]
