One-quarter of Russian software outlets sell bootleg Microsoft programs, the company said Monday as it published the results of a survey intended to elbow authorities into taking more action.
Russia is a notoriously lucrative market for unlicensed software, movies and music _ a persistent issue in Moscow’s stalled accession to the World Trade Organization.
Microsoft checked 2,500 [...]
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News: Microsoft: Pirated software still in Russian shops
February 11th, 2010 No Comments
Tags: anti-piracy · Microsoft · software piracy · unlicensed software
News: Software Piracy a Growing Problem for Microsoft
December 23rd, 2009 No Comments
Microsoft has experienced an increase in the number of voluntary reports in the past two years. More than 150,000 people unknowingly purchased counterfeit software that carried viruses or malware.
These reports have more than doubled during these years and this increase has raised concern for the harm caused by counterfeit software while driving Microsoft to give [...]
Tags: anti-piracy · copyright law · counterfeit software · Intellectual Property Rights · Microsoft · software piracy · World Customs Organization
News: Microsoft launches anti-piracy twitter feed
November 16th, 2009 No Comments
Microsoft’s Anti-Piracy Enforcement Team now has a Twitter feed.
The feed, which began on Nov. 3 with a link to a Microsoft page describing how to tell whether a piece of software has been pirated, has only four tweets but is expected to expand. A Microsoft spokesperson described the Twitter handle as a way for the [...]
Tags: anti-piracy · counterfeit software · Illegal File-sharing · Microsoft · Pirated Software · social networking · Twitter
News: 1 Million XBox Live Players Banned
November 16th, 2009 No Comments
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) this week booted as many as 1 million players from its Xbox Live gaming service due to the company’s belief that they modified their consoles to play games illegally downloaded from file sharing sites.
“All consumers should know that piracy is illegal and that modifying their Xbox 360 console to play pirated discs [...]
Tags: digital rights management (DRM) · file sharing · illegal downloads · Infinity Ward · Microsoft · modded consoles · Modern Warfare 2 · Piracy · pirated games · XBox
News: Software Pirates in China Beat Microsoft to the Punch
October 22nd, 2009 No Comments
TAIPEI — At shops in the bustling Xinyang market in Shanghai, fake Apple iPhones and Bose speakers were displayed alongside bootleg copies of Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system, a week before it officially was to go on sale.
“Which version do you want? Ultimate? Normal? English or Chinese?” one shopkeeper asked, proudly pointing out her ample [...]
Tags: china · Intellectual Property Rights · Microsoft · software piracy · Windows 7
News: Software piracy thrives in Peru, despite economic growth
October 1st, 2009 No Comments
71% of software installed in Peru last year was pirated.
At the gritty indoor flea market known as Wilson for the sprawling downtown Lima avenue where it is located, shoppers can load up on thousands of dollars worth of software for about the cost of a day’s supply of groceries.
Despite Peru’s steady economic growth, software piracy [...]
Tags: Adobe Systems · anti-piracy · BSA · intellectual property infringement · Microsoft · Peru · software piracy
News: Microsoft wins piracy lawsuit
July 22nd, 2009 No Comments
China’s Do-It-Yourself personal computer market has proven a chronic headache for Microsoft Corp, which is continually battling the use of pirated software.
But the US-based software giant won a skirmish this month, when a Beijing court ruled against a major custom PC dealer accused of pre-installing pirated Microsoft Windows and Office software.
On July 2, Beijing No [...]
Tags: china · Computer Software · IPR · Microsoft · PC · Pirated Software
News: China jails Microsoft counterfeiters
June 17th, 2009 No Comments
A Chinese court has issued tough sentences to members of a huge software counterfeiting ring, which distributed more than $US2 billion ($A3 billion) worth of fake Microsoft goods, the company said.
The court in the southern city of Shenzhen on Wednesday sentenced 11 people to jail terms of up to six-and-a-half years for making high-quality counterfeit [...]
Tags: china · Counterfeiting · Microsoft · Piracy
