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Piracy cut back by compliance laws
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, particularly in the consumer and small business market.
[September 24, 2004, 11:50]
Piracy battles have ISPs stuck in crossfire
News Piracy is increasing very rapidly. In addition, the past few weeks have seen a surge in alliances from a new generation of piracy-hunting companies, underscoring the now-permanent nature of the cat-and-mouse game.
[June 8, 2001, 14:45]
Piracy Bites: FAST admits it is powerless
News The UK's best known anti-piracy organisation, FAST, has admitted to ZDNet that it is powerless to prevent mass software piracy through file sharing applications such as Napster and its most recent clone, Wrapster.
[March 23, 2000, 14:11]
Piracy "good for Russian economy", says Kaspersky representative
Blog Russia would technologically "still be in the stone age" without the effects of software piracy, according to Timur Tsoriev, Kaspersky corporate communications and pr manager. He told me that piracy was becoming less of a problem in Russia now, as...
[December 11, 2006, 15:50]
Piracy may drive Adobe out of China
News Graphics software giant Adobe Systems may decide to leave the Chinese market and other Asian regions due to rampant piracy there, according to chief executive Bruce Chizen. Adobe could stop producing versions of its products in Chinese and other...
[January 15, 2002, 11:57]
Piracy-Free Video Distribution With Microsoft Windows Media Technologies
White Papers 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 around the world at less than...
[October 7, 2008, 0:00]
Piracy Focus: Music to CD-ROM - no problem
News Jollyon Benn of the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) said he was not surprised at the revelation, adding "at least one in three CDs (audio) are a result of either bootleg, copyright theft or some other form of piracy.
[June 16, 1998, 16:40]
Linspire: Piracy can be a positive thing
Talkback years ago I remember piracy actually was an ok thing. Get real Linspire! A judge friend of mine had told me that so long as the copies of software I traded with my friends wasn't accompanied by money.
[April 19, 2005, 22:16]
Linspire: Piracy can be a positive thing
Talkback Microsoft has become the dominant player largely because of Piracy. As Microsoft pushes for more stringent anti-piracy controls I think this issue of inexpensive-but-legal programming will get stronger.
[April 19, 2005, 14:35]
Swedish police claim major internet-piracy bust
News Swedish police on Friday reported making a major internet-piracy bust. The seized server contained 65TB of digital data, consisting of films, TV series, computer programs and the music equivalent of 16,000 movies, according to the Antipiracy Agency...
[March 10, 2009, 13:46]
Game company sued for piracy
News Usually, software piracy stories have two plots: either an individual is caught, or a large group of pirates is arrested. Increasingly, however, we hear tales of corporate software piracy. This type of blatant commercial software piracy cannot be...
[September 1, 1999, 15:15]
Software piracy whistleblowing becomes more lucrative
News In order to tackle software piracy head on and reduce the UK's 29 percent piracy rate, we are doubling the reward, as we think businesses will become more aware of the dangers of non-compliance," Carroll added.
[November 5, 2004, 14:03]
Singapore cracks down on cartoon piracy
News A new industry association will be launched next week to curb video compact disc (VCD ) piracy -- but mainly of a single genre of movie. Preliminary details suggest that the new body -- the Anti-Video Piracy Association (AVPA) -- will focus on...
[July 28, 2003, 10:10]
BSA 'piracy' report dismissed as scaremongering
News The level of software piracy remains unacceptably high," said Siobhan Carroll, a BSA regional manager, in a statement. This Directive, which was adopted by the EU in April 2004, requires all member states to apply "effective, dissuasive and...
[May 19, 2005, 12:45]
Evidence of piracy allegedly destroyed
News The music industry is urgently seeking a court hearing after being advised by lawyers for Australian universities involved in legal action over alleged online music piracy that evidence subject to a court order has been destroyed, a piracy...
[July 25, 2003, 9:57]
Code leak spurs Windows Server 2003 piracy
News A key code for installing Microsoft's Windows Server 2003 has leaked onto the Internet, a loss that could lead to widespread piracy of the software. With the release of Office XP in May 2001 and Windows XP about six months later, Microsoft added a...
[April 8, 2003, 7:28]
More piracy suits from Microsoft
News Microsoft Corp.took its national campaign against software piracy to federal court Thursday, accusing four companies of illegally distributing the computer giant's software. The lawsuits are the latest of more than 100 filed by the Redmond...
[April 9, 1999, 9:16]
Broadband Britain at risk from Internet piracy
News The UK's broadband boom is likely to falter unless more progress is made towards combating digital piracy, the Broadband Stakeholder Group (BSG) has warned. In a report published this week, the BSG urged both government and industry to develop...
[July 24, 2003, 16:33]
Windows piracy must not harm Linux
Leader Is Windows piracy boosting Linux numbers, or is Linux encouraging Windows piracy? Microsoft has argued in the past that shipping PCs free of any OS encourages piracy. Yet if the Induce Act currently being debated by the US government manages to...
[September 30, 2004, 11:20]
Microsoft angered by game-code piracy
News A Microsoft representative urged anyone with information on the source of the pirated game to contact the company's antipiracy division at piracy@microsoft.com. Microsoft threatened severe penalties on Thursday for those who circulate a stolen copy...
[October 15, 2004, 12:25]
