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Software Piracy: The illegal copying of software for distribution within the organization, or to friends, clubs and other groups, or for duplication and resale. The software industry loses billions of dollars...; Full Software Piracy Definition >>

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FBI, Chinese bust huge software piracy ring: The FBI and Chinese police made a huge software piracy bust, officials said Tuesday, arresting two software piracy gangs and seizing $500 million worth of pirated software, AP reports. Police arrested 25 people, seizing 360,000 programs, mostly from Microsoft and Symantec, and property valued at $7.9 million. The gangs allegedly...; Tags: Law enforcement, China; Blog posts 2007-07-24
FREE Whitepaper on protecting your software against piracy: Software piracy continues to be a growing epidemic. According to the Second Annual Business Software Alliance BSA and IDC Global Software Piracy Study, thirty-five percent of the software installed on personal computers worldwide was pirated, representing a loss of nearly $33 billion in 2004. This white paper...; Tags: Software, SafeNet Inc., Epidemic, Software Piracy, Tools & Techniques, Piracy, Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law; White papers 2007-03-21
The economics of Microsoft's kill switch: Would you sacrifice $10 million in sales to prevent $1 billion in software piracy? How about $100 million? How many customers would you annoy? Interesting questions with no hard and fast answers. Those are the types of questions Microsoft (the figures above are only there...; Tags: General, Software Infrastructure; Blog posts 2006-11-20
Microsoft: 'Software piracy is not a victimless crime': I tend to restrict my blogging here to hardware related matters, but I feel compelled to comment on the latest twists in the Windows Genuine Advantage saga.This latest twist is the announcement that Windows Vista is to have technology similar to WGA "hard baked" into it. This announcement came...; Tags: Microsoft Corp., SPP, software; Blog posts 2006-10-04
Microsoft's Software Protection Platform: Innovations for Windows Vista and Windows Server "Longhorn": Software piracy is a persistent and evolving crime. Each year consumers, businesses and industry as a whole are harmed by counterfeit software. With the upcoming release of Windows Vista and Windows Server "Longhorn," Microsoft has increased its investments to help address this challenge. Windows Vista and Windows Server "Longhorn" will...; Tags: Innovation, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows Vista, Server, Microsoft Longhorn, Microsoft Corp., Software Piracy, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Tools & Techniques, Operating Systems, Piracy, Software, Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law; White papers 2006-10-01

Best Practices in Creating High Level Application Security: Software piracy continues to be a growing epidemic. According to the Second Annual Business Software Alliance BSA and IDC Global Software Piracy Study, thirty-five percent of the software installed on personal computers worldwide was pirated, representing a loss of nearly $33 billion in 2004. This white paper examines prevalent hacking...; Tags: Software, Best Practice, SafeNet Inc., Application Security, Software Piracy, Hacking, Tools & Techniques, Security, Management; White papers 2005-10-14
DrinkorDie pair convicted of software piracy: DrinkorDie pair convicted of software piracyand in other news......Jails are full! A rapist and a child molester was paroled early today to make room for criminals that have committed worse crimes, like software piracy.....That's funny!Until you really start thinking about it. Then, it sort of makes you feel ill.; Tags: software piracy, DrinkOrDie, software; Discussion threads 2005-03-18
Software Piracy and the Law: Software piracy is a high-stakes gamble. Can a business really suffer legal and ethical consequences if it’s caught with pirated software? This is what the U.S. law has to say.; Tags: Software, Business Software Alliance, Software Piracy, Piracy, Tools & Techniques, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Management; White papers

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Appearance: PPUG meets tomorrow in Philly: If you're in the Philadelphia area I'd like to invite you to attend the Philadelphia PowerBook User Group PPUG meeting tomorrow at the Manayunk Brewery and Restaurant. We meet from 12 noon to 3pm over lunch and fine local beer. Want to debate my theory on...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Philadelphia, 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O\'Grady; Blog posts 2008-07-25
Software makers may sue eBay: Tired of being "stiff-armed" by eBay, the Software and Information Industry Association is signaling its ready to sue over pirated software sales on the dominant online auction site, PC World reports. SIIA has offered eBay several suggestions for stemming the sale of pirated software on...; Tags: Software, Software Information Industry Association, eBay Inc., Tiffany, Tools & Techniques, Piracy, Sales Strategy, Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Sales, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-07-25
Gaping holes in RealPlayer patched: Digital media delivery firm RealNetworks has shipped a high-prority patch to cover four gaping holes in its flagship RealPlayer software, warning that the vulnerabilities could put users at risk of code execution attacks. The patch comes a few hours after Secunia released an advisory warning for one...; Tags: Vulnerability, RealNetworks Inc., RealNetworks RealPlayer, Digital Music, Digital Media, Security, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Ryan Naraine; Blog posts 2008-07-25
What paper trail?: I've been carting around my latest sheaf of press releases about the green-ness of electronic document technology for weeks now. Yes, as I've blogged before, I am still one of those people who can't help printing out certain emails in order to act on them. Yes, it's bad, I know....; Tags: Xerox Corp., Paper Trail, Survey, Printers, Data Centers, Marketing Research, Hardware, Peripherals, Storage, Data Management, Marketing, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-07-25
EIC podcast: Microsoft's analyst meeting; Icahn's deal; Facebook: On this week's EIC squared podcast, Dan is back and we talk about Microsoft's analyst meeting, Kevin Johnson's departure from the software giant, Carl Icahn's deal with Yahoo and Facebook. The big news this week was Microsoft's financial meeting (see Mary Jo Foley and Ina Fried's coverage)...; Tags: Facebook, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Carl Icahn, Dan, Podcasts, Portals, Internet, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-07-25
Microsoft joins 'patch DNS now' chant; Apple patch missing: On the heels of the release of weaponized exploit code for the DNS cache poisoning vulnerability, Microsoft has joined the chorus of security pros pleading with DNS server providers to immediately apply patches to protect users from malicious attacks. The Redmond, Wash. security...; Tags: Apple Macintosh, DNS, Vulnerability, Apple Inc., Exploit Code, Microsoft Corp., Attack, Dan Kaminsky, Domain Names, Apple Mac OS X, Networking, Security, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Ryan Naraine; Blog posts 2008-07-25
Mystery solved: Apple's new product is iTablet (updated): Previously I speculated about the mysterious "product transition" that Apple's Peter Oppenheimer CFO mentioned no less than seven times in the Q3 2008 Earnings conference call with analysts. Some of his quotes from the call: We are working to develop new products that contains technologies...; Tags: Apple Inc., Tablets, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady; Blog posts 2008-07-25
Heap-based buffer overflow reported in RealNetworks RealPlayer: Update 07/25/2008: Aaron Portnoy of TippingPoint's security research group was kind enough to point out that I'm actually not affected by this, since I've installed the newest version of RealPlayer.Â From Aaron's email: Notice the Secunia advisory states it affects RealPlayer 10.5... the latest is 11.x, which now uses...; Tags: Vulnerability, RealNetworks Inc., Buffer-overflow, RealNetworks RealPlayer, Secunia Research, Vendor, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Nathan McFeters; Blog posts 2008-07-25
Microsoft may need an IBM moment of clarity: Microsoft's financial analyst meeting was a tale of a technology conglomerate: You heard a lot about search, a decent bit about the enterprise and all sorts of projects in between. But amid all the coverage--see Mary Jo's laundry list of stories--I can't help but wonder if Microsoft's...; Tags: Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., Enterprise, IBM Corp., Game Players, Virtualization, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Management, Software, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-07-25
AOL gussies up for potential sale, but who's buying?: AOL is shutting down XDrive, AOL Pictures and other properties in a belt tightening move that may indicate the company is setting itself up to be sold. The larger question: Who will buy AOL from Time Warner? According to a memo posted by TechCrunch, AOL executive vice...; Tags: America Online Inc., Portals, Business Structures, Litigation, Internet, Finance, Business Operations, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-07-25
News to know: 'Spam king' dead; Microsoft's cloud; Dell;: Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Escapee 'Spam King' dead in apparent murder-suicide CBS Denver Video: 'Spam King' Inmate Dies Along With Wife, Daughter Mary Jo Foley: Ozzie foreshadows 'Zurich,' Microsoft's elastic cloud Microsoft to get more 'Apple-like' in PC,...; Tags: Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-07-25
Google's $10M, no, $100M Android Challenge: Google's $10M, no, $100M Android ChallengeI think that Google also needs to make their own self branded phone.They can not depend on existing manufacturers to do it for them. But, after the Google phone takes off, Google might decide to get out of the market.It will be many years before...; Tags: Telecom & Utilities, phone, Google Inc.; Discussion threads 2008-07-24