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Microsoft tops Google Search takedown list

In the last month alone, Google received requests to remove more than 500,000 links to copied Microsoft software from its search results Read more

25 May, 2012 by David Meyer

Adobe releases Photoshop CS6 beta with GPU use boost

...In a blog post last month, Adobe said this would protect against counterfeit software and make losing the boxed copy less of a disaster Read more

22 March, 2012

Handii tablet maker settles over fake Microsoft software

...maker to court in April, seeking damages for the use of the counterfeit software. Microsoft said that Handii customers should contact the manufacturer to receive... Read more

3 June, 2011 by Luke Hopewell

Is stealing software different from stealing hardware?

...more than a slap on the wrist that effectively condones software theft. Counterfeit software isn't the big problem for the commercial software industry, according... Read more

6 October, 2010

Media companies demand ID numbers for CDs and DVDs

...CD or DVD, together with much higher fines those making and using counterfeit software are among news measures being pushed by media companies Read more

24 May, 2002 by Matt Loney

Auction sites implicated in illegal software

...Newton, campaign manager at BSA UK, claims that auction site trade in counterfeit software has reached epidemic proportions. "We estimate that up to nine out... Read more

23 November, 2000 by Will Knight
Microsoft targets Office 'Blue Edition' counterfeiters

Microsoft targets Office 'Blue Edition' counterfeiters

...software making the rounds of online auctions is Office 'Blue Edition'. The counterfeit software claims to be a technician version of Microsoft's software that... Read more

5 December, 2008 by Ina Fried

FBI helps China crack software-counterfeiting ring

...Microsoft customers and resellers provided the company with 55,000 examples of counterfeit software, which Microsoft said was less than one percent of the total... Read more

24 July, 2007 by Tom Espiner

eBay battles consumer rights magazine

...year eBay faced criticism for being slow to shut down sales of counterfeit software and for not acting proactively on closing such sales Read more

28 February, 2006 by Will Sturgeon

Software fraudsters escape raid

...organised the raids, said on Thursday that unfortunately traders suspected of selling counterfeit software managed to avoid capture. "We had targeted some software stalls that... Read more

6 January, 2006 by Ingrid Marson

Software counterfeiter to pay $1.1m

...s business, Microsource International, on 17 November, 2004. In addition to the counterfeit software, they found documents showing that Chen had sold counterfeit Symantec products... Read more

29 September, 2005 by Joris Evers

Woman gets nine-year sentence for piracy

...for nine years and ordered to pay an $11m fine for importing counterfeit software Read more

27 November, 2002 by Margaret Kane

Microsoft expands anti-counterfeit drive

Company takes action against groups that sold copies of Windows and Office discounted for academic use to regular users Read more

3 April, 2007 by Joris Evers

Symantec wins £700k in counterfeit-software case

...Anywhere. The settlement is the largest award Symantec has received in a counterfeit-software case in the UK and Europe, the company said in an... Read more

14 August, 2008 by Jo Best

Symantec sues over counterfeit software

...55m in damages, having filed lawsuits against eight distributors accused of selling counterfeit software Read more

17 May, 2007 by Dawn Kawamoto

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