Software Group: Piracy Losses Growing

The rate of global software piracy has remained static for three years, but the cost to companies that make the programs is rising, the Business Software Alliance said Tuesday.

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Web Site Owner Gets 7 Years for Piracy

The owner of one of the nation's largest Internet software piracy Web sites has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison.

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In a landmark case against the rising tide of online piracy, the owners of The Pirate Bay, one of the most well-known BitTorrent websites in the world, have been found guilty of having made 33 copyright-protected files accessible for illegal file sharing, and ordered to pay 30 m …

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A couple months ago, when the Business Software Alliance (BSA) released its latest stats on "piracy," it's VP of anti-piracy, Neil MacBride, gave me a call to discuss my earlier complaints about the organizations methodology.

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The Shmoo has returned.

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From the article: BEFORE he was extradited to the United States, Hew Griffiths, from Berkeley Vale in NSW, had never even set foot in America. But he had pirated software produced by American companies.

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From the article: There will be more criminal prosecutions for intellectual property (IP) violations as a result of Australia's Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the United States, according to leading IP academics.

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Trade relations between the US and China have long been tense - that of sort of an awkward acquaintanceship between two people who don't really like each other but have to get along because they work with each other.

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Microsoft doesn't want you to pirate their software, but if you must choose between illegally installing Windows or a competitor's operating system, Microsoft would prefer that you choose them.

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Windows Genuine Advantage is an anti-piracy tool loathed by many, tolerated by some, and even appreciated by others.

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The owner of one of the nation's largest internet software piracy websites has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison.

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Notwithstanding the relative ease with which I proved one can buy illegal software in China (piracy rates upwards of 91% here, after all), it's a brazen ring of software pirates operating right here in the U.S. that's making all the recent headlines.

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Stones Reunited: Not the rock band.

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Bad news for Vista pirates: they won't get to see all the fancy graphic bloat stuff that most of us turn off anyway.

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I hope to see the Philippine government suing one of its agencies for pirating software! :D

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Tsk. Tsk. How software piracy hurts the US more than anyone else, even though we're doing it the least.

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