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Update: Software group weighs piracy lawsuit against eBay A trade group representing hundreds of software vendors is considering a lawsuit against eBay for what it calls widespread sales of counterfeit software on the auction site.The Software and Information Industry Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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EBay seller pleads guilty to software piracy charges A 23-year-old Oregon man has pleaded guilty to charges that he used identity theft to set up bogus accounts on eBay, where he sold counterfeit software with a retail value of more than $1 million, the U.S. Department of Justice said. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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BSA: Software piracy's 'tragic' impact on US society Think of the children policemen The Business Software Alliance claimed yesterday that software piracy in the US is costing the industry $11.4bn and local government $1.7bn in lost taxes.… Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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UK software piracy rate declines A survey of software piracy in UK firms has shown that it has fallen for the first time in three years. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > BBC |
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Sony/BMG Accused of Software Piracy In a reversal of the usual, a small company (PointDev) is accusing a large one (Sony/BMG) of ripping off almost half the software it uses, at least as piracy is defined by French law. Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Sony/BMG Accused of Software Piracy In a reversal of the usual, a small company (PointDev) is accusing a large one (Sony/BMG) of ripping off almost half the software it uses, at least as piracy is defined by French law. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Brothers sentenced for software piracy Two brothers were sentenced Friday to multiyear prison terms for selling what the U.S. Department of Justice called "massive" amounts of pirated software online, the DOJ announced.Maurice A. Robberson, 48, was s Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft adds tool for evaluating software asset management Microsoft is adding a feature to its controversial SAM (software asset management) program that it claims will benefit corporate IT users by giving them a scorecard for evaluating their internal asset management processes. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Symantec wins big in UK bootleg software case Essex distie coughs up £700,000 Symantec today claimed its biggest win to date in Europe in a software piracy case. The software company received £700,000 in damages and costs from Nusoft Trading Ltd, an Essex, UK distributor of counterfeit Symantec software.… Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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ISPs, Web sites must tackle piracy, says CBS, Viacom chief Internet service providers, Web site operators, and manufacturers of devices that are used by some to pirate content should play a part in stamping out that piracy, Sumner Redstone, chairman and controlling shareholder of both Viacom and CBS, said on Tuesday. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Enterprises Face Barrage of Software Audits As piracy increases, software vendors eye new sources of money. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Internet.com |
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Brothers caged for selling pirated Adobe software Cops and Robbersons An American software internet piracy ring destroyed, and for once eBay is absent from the story. Two middle-aged brothers have been sent to prison for selling "massive amounts" of pirated software from Adobe, Autodesk and Macromedia, at huge discounts.… Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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Software group points to sector's economic importance The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) released a report on Thursday that painted a rosy picture of the sector's fortunes, one that stands in stark contrast to widespread fears of a recession in the U.S. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Developing world buoys up software pirates BSA spots emerging markets problem Software piracy in the UK has fallen for the first time in three years, albeit slightly. However, the worldwide counterfeit software rate climbed to 38 per cent in 2007.… Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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China Claims Anti-Piracy Crackdown Known as a hotbed of illegally copied goods, China says it's cracking down on movie piracy and other illegal product copying. Under fire from a World Trade Organization case charging China is lax in anti-piracy efforts, Chinese officials are also keen to curb copies of Olympic-related goods. Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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China Claims Anti-Piracy Crackdown Known as a hotbed of illegally copied goods, China says it's cracking down on movie piracy and other illegal product copying. Under fire from a World Trade Organization case charging China is lax in anti-piracy efforts, Chinese officials are also keen to curb copies of Olympic-related goods. Home > Rss Directory > Business > Wired News |
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China Claims Anti-Piracy Crackdown Known as a hotbed of illegally copied goods, China says it's cracking down on movie piracy and other illegal product copying. Under fire from a World Trade Organization case charging China is lax in anti-piracy efforts, Chinese officials are also keen to curb copies of Olympic-related goods. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Software pirates put sizeable dent in UK economy Shiver me timbers, they're taking our jobs The UK is missing out on more than £1bn in lost taxes and the creation of over 13,000 new high-paying jobs over four years if we all took software piracy more seriously, according to a new report.… Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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Microsoft Pledges To Open Up Some Software - CNNMoney.com Microsoft Pledges To Open Up Some SoftwareCNNMoney.com - 1 hour agoHoping to appease antitrust regulators in the European Union, Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) on Thursday said it would work to make its software products more interoperable with those of its competitors.Micros Home > Rss Directory > General > Google News |
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Free-software lawyers: Don't trust Microsoft's Open XML patent pledge Company's Open Specification Promise (OSP), designed to prevent patent problems for third parties, provides "no assurances" to GPL developers, says Software Freedom Law Center. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > CNET |