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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]
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]
Linspire: Piracy Can Be A Positive Thing
News Linspire chief executive Michael Robertson, speaking at the UK launch of Linspire 5 in London, said the best way to tackle piracy is to offer customers value for money. Businesses need to change so piracy becomes a positive thing," said Robertson.
[April 18, 2005, 16:35]
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 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 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]
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]
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]
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]
Microsoft Mandates 'piracy' Checks
News Beginning on Tuesday 26 July, the piracy check will be mandatory for all customers worldwide who want to download add-ons for Windows XP. Lazar declined to say how much Microsoft hopes to cut into the piracy rate with the Windows Genuine push.
[July 26, 2005, 9:05]
Tory Leader Compares Music Piracy With Child Abuse
Blog They have already established the Internet Watch Foundation to monitor child abuse and incitement to racial hatred on the internet.They should be doing the same when it comes to digital piracy. Tory leader David Cameron has delivered a speech to...
[July 6, 2007, 18:30]
Government Launches Anti-piracy Plan
Talkback Until prices are brought down to a reasonable level piracy is going to remain rampant or hopefully (for the sake of us consumers) increase. Look at computer games, now a days they cost about £40 each, why would any sane person pay that amount.for...
[August 12, 2004, 13:54]
DrinkorDie Two Convicted Of Software Piracy
News Two men who were accused of taking part in a massive global software piracy ring were convicted at the High Court this week. Alex Bell, 32, of Grays, Essex, and Steven Dowd, 42, of Newton-le-Willows, Merseyside, were both found guilty of conspiracy...
[March 17, 2005, 15:10]
BBC Claims Computer Piracy Costs UK £3bn A Year
News A BBC investigation into copyright violation has found that the UK computer games industry is losing billions of pounds each year through software piracy. Codemaster hopes that this will discourage piracy, because users won't be able to trust an...
[April 10, 2001, 13:52]
A Year Ago: 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, 2000, 7:00]
Worldwide Anti-piracy Sweep Nets Three
News The US Department of Justice said on Tuesday three men pleaded guilty to criminal copyright infringement, as part of what attorneys called the largest multinational Net piracy investigation to date. The US federal government has stepped up its...
[March 9, 2005, 9:10]
Accused Piracy Leader Pleads Guilty
News The accused leader of an Internet piracy group known as DrinkOrDie could face up to five years in prison after pleading guilty on Wednesday to conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement. Entertainment industry executives praised Sankus...
[February 28, 2002, 9:38]
Police Smash £39m Italian Piracy Ring
News The Italian Internet piracy ring is known to have further links to organised networks in other countries within the EU. In particular, the BSA is currently working with police in the UK, Netherlands, Germany and Spain on similar large-scale...
[November 6, 2002, 17:04]
Microsoft Proposes Chinese Piracy Amnesty
News Microsoft has extended its anti-piracy olive branch to China, offering users of bootleg copies of Windows a 50 percent discount on a legitimate version if they come clean on how they got their pirated copy.
[March 4, 2005, 8:45]
Global Piracy Purge Nets 200 PCs
Talkback Piracy" is only the market expressing the true value (from the consumer's POV) of video, audio and application software. The "Cost to the industry" The inflated pricing of commercial software means there will always be a black market.
[April 23, 2004, 13:27]
