France's highest legal authority has ruled as unconstitutional a government plan to cut off, without trial, Internet users accused of copyright infringement.
The Pirate Party, a party campaigning for online civil rights, has won at least one seat in the European Parliament, after obtaining 7.1 percent of the votes in elections in Sweden.
PC software piracy was on the upswing in 2008 for the second year in a row, because PC shipments grew fastest in high-piracy countries like China and India, according to a study released Tuesday by the Business Software Alliance (BSA).
The BSA estimates that the Illinois economy lost the equivalent of 5,646 jobs due to PC software piracy. Trident Contract Management and Aspera GmbH offer suggestions on how companies can reduce software piracy through software asset management (SAM).
Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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Microsoft updates WGA to find counterfeit Windows XP Pro
Tracking down the elusive R4 in Akihabara
Pirates prefer Windows XP over Vista, says Microsoft
SIIA expands piracy lawsuits to Amazon.com, iOffer sellers
College Athlete Turned Software Pirate Sentenced to Three Years Behind Bars
11 in China sentenced for software piracy
Alleged software counterfeiters indicted
Pirates to Worry You: Chinese Manufacturing Partners
Hollywood's Victory Over Pirate Bay Will Be Short
Pay-as-you-go a way around piracy, Microsoft says