Report software piracy, get a shot at $1 million
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Blog: For a limited time only, a major software industry group is dangling the reward for workplace whistleblowers, but it's at its sole discretion to decide what's worthy of the jackpot.
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How much should people be able to quote from, remix, and reuse copyrighted material?
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Can homegrown software help Google and YouTube defuse a $1 billion lawsuit from Viacom? That&#39;s the question underlying the announcement that Google is about to test a new system to ferret out unauthorized film and video clips on YouTube.
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InfoWorld - The Software &amp; Information Industry Association (SIIA) received more than $1 million for software piracy settlements in December, the group announced Friday.
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A toolkit designed to exploit a recently-disclosed Microsoft JPEG vulnerability has been released onto the net. The toolkit (screen shot from AV firm F-Secure here) makes it trivially easy for maliciously-minded
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Dissatisfied customers led to his demise A Southern California man was arrested for allegedly producing and selling thousands of dollars worth of pirated software from Microsoft and Adobe, according to the Riverside County Sheriff's department.â¦
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Damages of up to $30,000 (Â£16,300) per film are being sought by the Motion Picture Association of America in an unknown number of lawsuits filed against people caught illegally downloading digital copies of films.
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Phantom sales lost to piracy? Get over it. It's time for the music labels to pull those master recordings out of storage and make some money. Commentary by Eliot Van Buskirk.
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The suit seeks $1 billion in damages and an injunction against further violations.
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The Business Software Alliance, a leading software industry organization, has announced a new approach to fighting piracy in the workplace: up to $1 million in cash to those whistle-blowers who rat out their employers. But the reward is only paid out if the BSA receives a cash settlement from the company.
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Visitors with a pirated copy of Windows may lose easy access to company&#39;s Download Center. As part of its efforts to combat software piracy, Microsoft is testing a new feature on its Download Center Web site that can lock out pirated copies of Windows.
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Despite sub-$1000 prices, the answer still depends on what apps you run.
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Microsoft is applying for a patent for an operating system that starts out crippled.  You must pay to do things like take the throttle off network speed, disk access, install drivers, install software, and more.  Trust me, I rarely even visit Groklaw, even if this is my second consecutive blog entry with a link to a Groklaw article. My VarLinux.org readers posted the article, A Brave New Modular World, and I had to share it.
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If a shopkeeper tried to charge $1,000 for a broken computer, you'd probably be outraged. You might even complain to the government.
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A piracy ring that has cost Symantec tens of millions of dollars in revenue is one reason the company is pushing all of its customers to sign up for a new online licensing program to verify the authenticity of their software.
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But look to lawsuit stick rather than iTunes carrot for the cause
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Microsoft last week quietly launched a pilot program to tackle the increasing problem of software piracy. Windows Genuine Advantage is the first trial of a validation scheme operating on Microsoftâs Download Center.