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		<title><![CDATA[Windows Activation Technologies in Windows 7]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1194917]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Software piracy is one of the most significant problems facing the software industry globally. It not only has an impact on the global economy but it affects legitimate businesses that have to compete with those selling counterfeit software. With Windows® 7, Microsoft® has enhanced its Software Protection Platform by expanding...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Does software piracy lead to higher malware infection rates?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=4605]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes it does, at least according to a recently released report by the Business Software Alliance BSA which basically correlates data on the known piracy rates for particular countries and their malware infection rates, using public sources.    The rationale behind their claims is fairly simple - users...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:20:12 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[FBI, Chinese bust huge software piracy ring]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://government.zdnet.com/?p=3323]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2007 08:38:42 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[FREE Whitepaper on protecting your software against piracy]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=287482]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The economics of Microsoft's kill switch]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=3987]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[  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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Nov 2006 11:43:41 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Microsoft: 'Software piracy is not a victimless crime']]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=111]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Oct 2006 17:37:54 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Microsoft's Software Protection Platform: Innovations for Windows Vista and Windows Server "Longhorn"]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=266719]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Oct 2006 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[DrinkorDie pair convicted of software piracy]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-1009-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=9048&messageID=180414&start=0]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2005 06:30:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Mk-1 Licensor 1.0 (Windows)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://downloads.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=680259]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[From the developer: "Mk-1 Licensor creates a unique License Key for each computer on which the software is installed. The License Key generated by the Mk-1 Licensor is tied to the computer on which software is installed. This will reduce software piracy and copyright infringement of software, if not eradicate...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Oct 2002 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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