Software Piracy
205 Stories
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
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
China biz software sector to be Asia's largest
News Country's enterprise software market is projected to expand at annual growth rate of 18 percent to reach US$9.4 billion in 2012, new study reports.
Tags: Business applications, IT budgeting, Security, SCM, China, software-as-a-service, supply chain, enterprise software, software project, IT budgeting
S'pore SMBs see disaster recovery plans as luxury
News Local small and midsize firms diligent in data backup but still need to do more to safeguard business and customer data, survey finds.
Tags: Disaster recovery, Security, Business, Disaster Recovery, Survey, H1N1 flu, Disaster Recovery Planning, Singapore, Small And Medium Business, Indonesia
Asian tech startups still worthwhile investments
News Returns may not be as good or take longer to realize, but venture capital firms investing in region are still focused on wringing monetary ROI out of technology.
Tags: Investments, Angel investing, Business, Patent, Phone, Asia, Investment, IPO, venture capital, venture-capital company
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
Why Windows 7 should be free in China
Insight commentary Microsoft hasn't won the war on piracy in China, so why not strike before Google and produce a free OS closely aligned to its digital products and services?
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Open source, Cloud Computing, Microsoft Windows 7, Baidu.com Inc., Microsoft Windows, China, Income, Open source
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
The Microsoft 'black screen' of software legitimacy
Blogs Microsoft has come up with a new way of handling software piracy. Using its Windows Genuine Advantage tool, when a non-a...
Thailand hopes to be taken off Priority Watch List
News It expects the Untied States will move Thailand from the PWL to the Watch List because of the country's huge success enforcing intellectual property law.
Tags: Copyright, Asia, Business Software Alliance, Thailand, IP, copyright violation, intellectual property, business software, software, financial
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
Man gets 7 years for software piracy
News Owner of software piracy Web site receives the longest sentence ever handed down for software piracy.
Tags: Piracy
Malaysia acts tough on piracy, claims official
News Malaysia has taken action against 101 software piracy violations out of the 106 complaints it had received this year, according to the Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Ministry.
M'sia taking a hard line on piracy, claims govt
News Malaysia has taken action against 101 software piracy violations nationwide, out of the 106 complaints it had received this year, according to the Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Ministry.
M'sia government to come down hard on piracy
News All companies are advised to ensure that the software they are currently using are licensed copies before July 1, or face the possibility of civil and criminal proceedings.
