Biz Supports Federal Anti-Piracy Program
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The record industry's anti-piracy czar has given a thumbs-up to the Department of Justice's Operation Digital Gridlock.
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Microsoft is working to make its volume licensing programs simpler for business customers.
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BSA gives its definition of 'success' The BSA claims its month-long campaign to clamp down on software piracy in Glasgow is a âmajor successâ â despite uncovering just 41 potential pirates after haranguing thousands of businesses by letter.â¦
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Deal will allow companies to digitally authenticate PDFs.
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Retailer will let customers download and burn their choice, easing the need for an inventory of discs.
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By Stephen Foley  BitTorrent, the file-sharing technology company which unleashed a wave of illegal downloading of music and video, has gone legitimate, with the launch of its own Hollywood-approved film store.
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Many are willing to bet that media companies will want to share ad revenue with the popular video Web site, despite questions about piracy.
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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."
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The company tells the FCC that blocking some file sharing prevents subscribers from hogging the bandwidth and keeps net traffic moving.
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The makers of the BitTorrent file-sharing software set up a legal movie and music download service.
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NEW YORK, August 20 (New Ratings)  A federal appeals court in the US has declared that the online file-sharing software companies are not liable to copyright infringement charges.
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If large businesses use tools such as Microsoft's Solution Accelerator Business Desktop Deployment package (assuming it's easier to use than it is to say), the administrative "best practices" those tools will help them adopt could save them somewhat more per PC than what they spent for the license, according to a Gartner study advanced by a Microsoft product manager who spoke with BetaNews.
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Technology that allows content-protected movies to be downloaded and burned to DVDs received official approval.
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ello âello âello, save some money In an interesting twist in the battle against software piracy, Microsoft UK is promoting the benefits of Software Asset Management (SAM) under a scheme which rewards honesty - richly. It says the voluntary self-start SAM programme it introduced last November can save businesses a significant sum on licensing fees - in addition to giving them peace of mind.â¦
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LOS ANGELES: The recording industry has turned to its former arch-nemesis, the founder of online music file-swapping service Napster, to help it beat the piracy that it once accused him of spawning.
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The Recording Industry Association Of America (RIAA) has been suing people left, right and centre for illegal downloading, but now theyâve taken a more positive action toward supporting legit downloading services.
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The United States Trade Representative's office on Thursday sent out letters to key American business establishments seeking feedback on China's commitments to crack down on copyright piracy.