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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Slammed for touting unavailable but unlicensed content
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The software giant has started a campaign to steal, er, migrate NetWare users over to Windows Server 2003. Sheesh. &quot;Microsoft is offering US-based NetWare customers a voucher worth $600 toward channel-partner
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p2pnet.net News:- Four ex-Microsoft employees from the Seattle-area have been charged with stealing software worth $32.4 million from the company.
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BitTorrent is a wonderful way to download files with greater reliability than other conventional means, but of course that means that it is used greatly for piracy... apparently.
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Software piracy threatens to rob our cultural pioneers of their incentive to keep bringing us the best in everything they do. Microsoft is committed to preventing piracy from hurting legitimate software users, but by staying informed, you can ensure you're being part of the solution.   -- Microsoft on Software Piracy    Oops. Not taking your own advice is just silly.
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If you want to stop piracy of your programming, why would you take it off legitimate services? The peacock is in for a rude awakening.
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Software pirates' increasing skill at creating counterfeit versions of Windows XP has prompted MicrosoftÂ  to introduce a pilot program that offers to verify whether consumers' software is legitimate and replace fake versions with authentic goods.
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Bigflicks.com has about 1,000 movies, downloadable for $2 to $15.
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You can't cheat an honest person, they say. Like generations of scammers before them, some malware writers are taking that "advice" to heart, releasing their Trojan software and keyloggers as "cracked" versions of Vista oon peer-to-peer service. Who's going to turn them in, after all -- a would-be pirate?
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25 arrested Pirated Microsoft software, estimated by the firm to be worth more than $2bn, has been seized by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Chinese police following a long-running joint operation which began in 2005.â¦
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Paying customers may not get their hands on Windows Vista Service Pack 1 for weeks, but pirates can download the brand-new code today.
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A tool has been posted online that can apparently crack Vista's activation process by applying brute force -- and lots of time -- to come up with valid product keys. But the author is now telling users it's wrong to use it.
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SHENZHEN, China  - Pirated software worth $500  million, including counterfeit Microsoft and Symantec products,  has been seized in a long-running joint probe by Chinese police  and the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, officials from  both countries said on Tuesday.
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Following music industry measures to clamp down on illegal song piracy, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) are launching civil suits seeking damages of up to $30,000 (â¬23,200) per film.
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Owners of pirated copies of Microsoft Corp.'s Windows XP operating system can trade them in for the real thing as part of a bid by the software giant to fight counterfeiting.
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(InfoWorld) - The Business Software Alliance (BSA) has temporarily raised the reward that's part of controversial program encouraging people to report software piracy from $200,000 to $1 million, the trade group announced Monday. The BSA, representing large software vendors such as Microsoft, Apple, and IBM, will pay the sum for accurate reports of software copyright infringement between now and Oct. 2, the trade group said. There are some restrictions on the reward payments. The BSA has also launched a national radio and Internet advertising campaign titled, "blow the whistle." The trade group will also target several states, including California, Texas, Illinois, New York, and Florida over the next year. Since the BSA launched its Rewards program in the U.S. in late 2005, it has reached settlements with hundreds of companies, bringing in nearly $22 million. The retail value of software pirated in the U.S. during 2006 was $7.3 billion, according to a study from IDC. The new reward shows BSA's commitment to fighting software piracy, the trade group said. "Businesses often have a million excuses for having unlicensed software on office computers," Jenny Blank, BSA's director of enforcement, said in a statement. "BSA is now offering up to a million dollars for employees who turn them in." Businesses caught with unlicensed software can pay up to $150,000 per violation. Critics of the program say it encourages disgruntled former employees to snitch on companies. "In recent years the relationship between software publishers and businesses has become increasingly acrimonious," says a paper cowritten by Robert Scott, a partner in Scott & Scott, a law form specializing in defending BSA cases. "Software publishers are frequently approaching their customers making allegations that include violations of federal copyright laws and breach of software license contracts."