The rate of global software piracy declined 10 percent in the past eight years, but there was only a modest 1 percent reduction from 2001 until now with a sharp increase in what piracy costs companies ...

Seven lawsuits in California, Maryland, New York, Texas and Virginia filed against nine individuals claim they illegally acquired the software through Microsoft Action Pack Subscriptions (MAPS), a ...

BATON ROUGE, La., March 6-- The Louisiana Attorney General issued the following news: " Louisiana is blazing the trail against corporate software piracy with the nation's toughest law," says Attorney ...

Efforts to curb software piracy in China are bearing fruit although the piracy rate remains high, costing vendors billions of dollars in lost revenue, according to a survey paid for by large vendors, ...

In the 2020s we’re used to software being readily accessible, and often free, whether as-in-beer or as-in-speech. This situation is a surprisingly new one, and in an earlier era of consumer software ...

And it's regarding a topic about which most people have a very strong opinion: software piracy. Dina's comments have been kicking around in my head for weeks for random processing, but I felt ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. said on Friday it may take decades to tackle software piracy in large emerging economies despite some recent progress and called on Asian governments to invest more ...

Microsoft has a piracy problem, and it's had it for some time. In 2006, the LA Times reported that software piracy had caused the company a loss of around $14 billion that year alone, despite the ...

LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- Piracy continues to represent a major thorn in the side of software vendors, with over a third of software installed last year on the world's computers having been pirated ...

Abu Dhabi, July 3, 2005 (WAM) -- The UAE authorities have stepped up efforts to protect Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) by intensifying its campaign against software piracy. The Sharjah Police in a ...