Software piracy was at its peak in the early 2000s, threatening revenue streams and intellectual property rights for software ...

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 ...

Eastern Europe led the world in software piracy last year, followed closely by the Asia-Pacific region, the only area to see a rise in software copyright infringement, according to a new survey ...

Microsoft has a piracy problem, and it's had it for some time. In 2006, the LA Times reported that software piracy had caused the company a loss of around $14 billion that year alone, despite the ...

In the 2020s we’re used to software being readily accessible, and often free, whether as-in-beer or as-in-speech. This situation is a surprisingly new one, and in an earlier era of consumer software ...

The year just started, and piracy is still the only notable subject on the lips of content publishers and software developers ...

The study found that for every $1 reduction in software piracy, the Microsoft ecosystem, including channel partners, gained $4.37 in new revenue and $1.13 in lower costs for a total gain of $5.50, ...

Microsoft will change the user experience of its automatic anti-piracy checks in Windows Vista and also make it harder for hackers to bypass the system in the first service pack for the OS due out ...

The product, CodeArmor Intelligence, gives software vendors another weapon in the on-going battle against software piracy. Twenty to 30 percent of installed software in the U.S. is believed to be ...

While the overall software piracy rate worldwide remained at 35% last year — the same as in 2004 — the piracy rate in 51 of the 97 countries surveyed declined, according to a new study done jointly by ...

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