Piracy
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Philippine government proposes new IPR laws
News Facing mounting piracy, country unveils set of proposed rules to facilitate faster and more efficient resolution of court cases involving intellectual property rights.
Tags: Copyright, Lawsuits, Piracy, Chief Justice, Conference, Business Software Alliance, Philippines, IP, Intellectual Property Right, Government
PC software piracy increases globally
News Worldwide PC software piracy rate rises for second year in a row, to 41 percent, with problem being greatest in world's fastest-growing markets, according to new study.
Tags: Piracy, Piracy, India, Business Software Alliance, Hong Kong, Asia-Pacific, Small Business, software, China, enterprise software
SMBs get help against software piracy
News Singapore government and trade associations launch campaign to help small businesses better manage their software licensing assets.
Tags: Piracy, Software, Small And Medium Enterprise, Business Software Alliance, Safe Harbor, Software Piracy, IPO, Singapore, ASME, software company
Europe getting 'Internet freedom' law
News Major overhaul of telecommunications regulations tackles issues ranging from data-breach notification to faster number porting to Internet access.
Tags: Regulations, Web sites, Piracy, negotiator, Telecoms Reform Package, European Commission, Web sites, European Parliament, Telecommunications, European Union
Will PSP Go keep pirates at bay?
News Like all of Apple's portable devices, the PSP Go will have a sealed in battery that's non user-replaceable. An integrated battery helps save precious space, but in the case of the PSP Go, it was also designed to thwart pirates.
Tags: Game players, Battery, Security, Piracy, Sony Playstation, Sony PlayStation Portable, digital content, firmware upgrade, disc, firmware
US$2.27B: The price of pirate desktop software in the UK
News More than a quarter of the desktop software installed in the United Kingdom last year was pirated.
Tags: Piracy, Business applications, Apple Inc., Egypt, Piracy, Business Software Alliance, International Data Corp., software company, software, desktop software
Studios snag Australian piracy victory
News In what is believed to be the first copyright case heard by a jury in Australia, a Sydney store owner is convicted of 15 offenses.
Tags: Piracy, Australia, disc, Sydney, movie, China, director, Piracy
French parliament unexpectedly kills Net piracy bill
News With few members present of final vote, lawmaking body votes down a bill that would have compelled Internet service providers to punish suspected copyright violators.
Tags: Piracy, Copyright, Web sites, Bill, Piracy, Internet Access, Entertainment Industry, Nicolas Sarkozy, RIAA, European Union
US Congress looks abroad to curb piracy
News Entertainment industry representatives tell the U.S. Congress it should urge other countries to adopt better intellectual property protections, or it may want to consider working with ISPs as Europe has.
Tags: Copyright, Piracy, Piracy, Video, Intellectual Property Right, entertainment, intellectual property, Canada, online video, job
France ignores EU and passes antipiracy law
News The French General Assembly passed the "three-strikes" antipiracy legislation, which conflicts with an EU law passed last week.
Tags: Piracy, Copyright, Piracy, European Parliament, Internet Access, Entertainment Industry, entertainment, Pirate Bay, antipiracy, Internet Service Provider
Online auctions remain piracy problem for Microsoft
News The company has filed another 63 suits against pirates selling via online marketplaces, the fact is, consumers remain eager to find cut-rate offers for Windows and Office.
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Piracy, Web sites, Microsoft Corp., Piracy, antipiracy, software, online auction, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows
Vietnam: Where pirated apps match personal budgets
Insight perspective Many Vietnamese view pirated software as the only way they can afford the apps they want and need. Considering their wage scale, they aren't necessarily wrong.
Tags: Piracy, Business applications, Personal applications, Software licensing, Operating systems, Adobe PhotoShop, Vietnam, DVD, Nam, Kaspersky
Microsoft tweaks antipiracy tech for Windows 7
News The software maker is making a couple of changes to the activation process for the operating system as it works to find the balance between preventing piracy and limiting annoyance.
Tags: Piracy, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage, antipiracy, software, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows
New Firefox extension turns Amazon.com into illegal free-for-all
News A new Firefox extension adds Pirate Bay BitTorrent links to product pages on Amazon.com, putting the retailer in a tough position.
Tags: Piracy, BitTorrent, Digg, Extension Developer, Amazon.com Inc., movie, News.com, blog, MP3, Firefox Extension
China jails counterfeiters over Microsoft fakes
News China has cracked down on a global software-counterfeiting syndicate, with 11 "ringleaders" now facing up to six-and-a-half years in jail.
Tags: Software, Piracy, Lawsuits, Microsoft Corp., FBI, Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage, Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office
