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Russia has dropped off the top 20 worst piracy countries.?? In a reaction to the news, Microsoft has promised to open outbound codes of Windows and Office for Russian software producers soon, which will make Russian products more competitive on the international market.
Full Article: http://www.kommersant.com/p765727/Software_Piracy_Rating/
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New company offers pirate proof software.?? The company is called Secured Dimensions and their product is called SecureLM.?? In less than a year companies started to take notice and they were bought out by Microsoft.
In January, 2007 it was reported by Red Herring that the Microsoft Corporation had purched Secured Dimensions for several million dollars. The sale was completed soon after the initial report and by the end of the month Secured Dimensions was displaying a Microsoft Subsidiary Logo on their website.
Check out their website here http://www.securelm.net/
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The rate of global software piracy has remained static for three years, but the cost to companies that make the programs is rising, the Business Software Alliance said Tuesday.
The BSA survey, conducted by the U.S.-based market research company IDC, concluded that for every $2 spent on legitimate software, $1 went to pirates.
The report claimed 35 percent of all software installed on personal computers in 2006 was obtained illegally. It estimated software vendors could lose about $180 billion to pirates over the next four years.
Full Article: http://www.miamiherald.com/156/story/107348.html
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Steve Balmer, CEO of Microsoft travels to Asia to tackle software piracy head on.?? Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer witnessed the signing of an agreement Monday requiring all of Vietnam’s government offices to use licensed computer software in a step to curb rampant piracy.
“The agreement demonstrates very strong commitments of the government of Vietnam,” in protecting intellectual property rights, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung told Ballmer before the signing ceremony.
Vietnam’s Ministry of Finance was the first government agency to sign the Microsoft Office licensing agreement during a visit by company Chairman Bill Gates last year.
Full Article: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07142/787836-96.stm
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Game Makers hit hard by software piracy.?? Getting free games is as easy as going on the Internet.
No, I don?’?¬?’t mean casual games and I don?’?¬?’t mean out-of-print stuff. I?’?¬?’m talking about triple-A games ?’?¬? new stuff and old favorites.
Internet ?’?¬?pirate?’?¬? sites offer ?’?¬?cracked?’?¬? versions of the shrink-wrapped, copyright-protected software you get at Best Buy. Most of the time, these pirated games are available free of charge. The people who cracked the game?’?¬?’s copy protection and posted it on a peer-to-peer transfer site didn?’?¬?’t do it to turn a profit. They did it just because they could.
Full article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18665162/
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The U.S. Congress’ International Anti-Piracy Caucus released its annual “watch list” of countries where intellectual property rights are seriously threatened.
The IAPC list’s top five offenders included four that were on a similar list released recently by the U.S. Trade Representative — China, Russia, Malaysia and Mexico, Variety said Friday.
Full Article: http://www.themoneytimes.com/articles/20070519/anti_piracy_caucus_issues_watch_list-id-103843.html
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Reducing software prices could lead to a reduction piracy rates. According to research house IDC, which was commissioned to conduct the study, the average selling price of software was one of several components used to estimate revenue losses. So, logically, increases in software prices would inflate revenue losses. However, Walter Lee, IDC’s Asia-Pacific vice president of consulting, was hesitant to draw that conclusion, noting that some software vendors increase their prices when they bundle several applications and offer these as one software package.??
Some have long argued that piracy can be dramatically reduced if only software vendors were more willing to bring down their prices and make software more affordable to the masses. As it is, some of Asia’s developing markets find it tough to cope with rising hardware requirements.
Full Article: http://www.zdnetasia.com/blog/btw/0,39056810,62014080,00.htm
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For every two dollars of software purchased legitimately, one dollar was obtained illegally, according to BSA. Global losses increased in 2006 by more than $5 billion over the previous year. Of the 102 countries covered in the 2006 study, 62 reported moderate drops in software piracy, while 13 registered an increase.
Another key finding: while the
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A new study has revealed interesting social information about software and movie piracy.?? New academic research suggests that neither social norms nor the threat of lawsuits are enough to keep college students from illegally downloading music.
The study, which appeared in the most recent issue of Cyberpsychology & Behavior, provides no answers to a music industry that is desperately seeking ways to put the brakes on file-sharing. It does suggest that such sharing doesn’t hurt the music business, though; according to the authors, “downloading intentions also had no direct relationship to either compact disc purchases or to subscriptions to online paid music services.”
Full Article:?? http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070511-file-swapping-as-the-man-says-no-students-say-yes.html
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Hong Kong Persecutes notorious software pirates.?? Three men, aged 26, 35 and 38, who contravened the Copyright Ordinance and Organized and Serious Crimes Ordinance were today (May 28) given prison sentences ranging from 31.5 to 73.5 months by the District Court. The 73.5 months’ sentence is the heaviest of its kind so far.
Three men were arrested during a Customs anti-piracy crackdown, codenamed “Operation Glacier” on August 4, 2005, for operating a pirated disc replicating workshop, two storage centers and three retail outlets.
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