Piracy
Find out how governmental policy, law enforcement, and technological controls seek to reduce the piracy of digital assets.
Articles about Piracy
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T-shirt of the week: Buccaneer-Americans
For those who are wondering why many of their more Internet-addicted coworkers and associates are adopting a Jack Sparrow accent of late, it's because today is "Talk Like a Pirate Day."
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Microsoft files multiple lawsuits around the world on WGA evidence
Microsoft has filed 52 lawsuits around the world, in addition to referring another 22 cases to law enforcement agencies in 22 different countries. This is part of its global antipiracy efforts, with a...
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Anti-piracy pact aims to nail online offenders in France
Anti-piracy pact aims to nail online offenders in France
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Canada turns a blind eye to piracy for personal use
Do you think that piracy is too difficult to track down, and so organizations should stop wasting their time trying to prevent it? Well, that's essentially what's happening in Canada, at least for cop...
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Avast, ye scalawags, for Talk Like a Pirate Day draws nigh!
Avast, ye scalawags, for Talk Like a Pirate Day draws nigh!
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More interviews include 'logic questions'
More interviews include 'logic questions'
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Of global warming and pirates
A lesson in correlation and causality
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Enterprise Vista activation feature hacked
Enterprise Vista activation feature hacked
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Software piracy rates and the BSAA
The annual Business Software Association (BSA) report into global piracy rates of packaged software was released last week. Interestingly enough the BSA claim that Australia's piracy rates have dro...
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Software piracy rates and the BSAA
The annual Business Software Association (BSA) report into global piracy rates of packaged software was released last week. Interestingly enough the BSA claim that Australia's piracy rates have dro...
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Cruise ship Britons attacked by pirates
Cruise ship Britons attacked by pirates
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Silicon Valley's China syndrome
CNET News.com's Charles Cooper says the tech industry is fed up with software piracy in China but still doesn't have a solution.
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Microsoft proposes piracy amnesty
Software juggernaut raises the white flag, offering to replace people's counterfeit copies of Windows XP.
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Microsoft battles piracy with free software
Company lays out booty for nonpirates who prove their Windows software is the real thing.
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Copyright Office pitches anti-P2P bill
A proposal surfaces to ban file-swapping networks--a response to the recent court ruling that said they were legal to operate.
