Big vendors such as Microsoft and IBM say that they’re collectively losing billions of dollars a year in software sales because of piracy, and are working together and with government to address the ...

Microsoft said Tuesday it had filed 26 lawsuits that allege computer dealers sold illegal software, the latest move in the software giant's effort to crack down on intellectual property piracy. The ...

The Entertainment Software Association, in its infinite wisdom, has told a California Senate committee that private and community servers are illegal and amount to piracy.

As more and more hackers flood the Web, a study conducted by researchers at the University of Florida and the University of Nevada revealed software piracy on college campuses also remains a problem.

The results from the Business Software Alliance’s fifth-annual study on global software piracy revealed some statistics that would put a smile on any software company executive’s face: Of the 108 ...

The year hasn’t been one of Nike‘s best, and now the athletic retailer may be headed to court over an issue related to pirating software. Database management company Quest is taking the sneaker giant ...

Slow, steady progress is being made in the fight against software piracy in the workplace, but Internet software piracy continues to be a problem, the Business Software Alliance (BSA) said in an ...

Yesterday a Chinese businessman pleaded guilty to selling pirated software—used by defense, space technology and engineering businesses—worth a retail value of over $100 million. A plethora of ...

My stance on this is that yes, pirating software does hurt the Free Software alternatives. I would be VERY glad if Microsoft created a piracy-preventing system that REALLY works. And not just for the ...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - China's booming demand for personal computers caused losses from pirated software to surge 40 percent to $5.4 billion last year -- but things are getting better, a trade group ...

Keith Kupferschmid, the SIIA's senior vice president for IP policy and enforcement, says for years the organization has been working on ways to tackle the problem of pirated software resold on auction ...

Mondak writes: “Microsoft doesn’t want you to pirate their software, but if you must choose between illegally installing Windows or a competitor’s operating system, Microsoft would prefer that you ...