The pandemic caused by COVID-19 has a destructive reach that goes beyond that of a highly contagious and deadly illness. It is also contributing to the rapid spread of piracy — as in spreading illegal ...

Software piracy is so widespread that it exists in homes, schools, businesses and government offices. According to the Business Software Alliance (BSA), an international association representing the ...

BEIJING--When Bill Gates, the Microsoft chairman, played host to President Hu Jintao of China in Seattle last month, he learned that he had a customer at the apex of the world's biggest market. In a ...

Washington, DC — May 15 — Well over half the world’s personal computer users — 57 percent — admit they acquire pirated software, the Business Software Alliance reported today in the ninth-annual BSA ...

Friday 2nd May/... A joint operation between West Yorkshire Trading Standards Service (WYTSS) and West Yorkshire Police on Sunday 27th April resulted in approximately 12,000 illegally copied discs and ...

BEIJING--"DVDs? CDs? Games? Porn? What you want?" hawkers in Beijing's Zhongguancun neighborhood whisper to potential customers. Asked for computer software, one scurries off to check his cache, kept ...

Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko. Contributor/Getty Images. The government of Belarus has passed a law that permits the use of media and intellectual property, such as computer software, in ...

Big vendors such as Microsoft and IBM say that they’re collectively losing billions of dollars a year in software sales because of piracy, and are working together and with government to address the ...

Software piracy grew in the Asia-Pacific region last year but leveled off in most regions of the world, according to a new survey by an industry trade group. The Global Software Piracy Study (download ...

Federal prosecutors say five men have been indicted on charges of participating in a computer piracy scheme that involved the large-scale illegal distribution of copyrighted software. A federal grand ...

A 28-year-old Ukrainian man, Maksym Vysochanskyy, was sentenced late Monday in federal court in San Jose to 35 months in prison for his role in selling pirated copies of software from Adobe Systems ...

The government of Belarus has passed a law that permits the use of media and intellectual property, such as computer software, in the country without the consent of copyright holders from “unfriendly” ...