software piracy

Software Piracy (Infographic)

Digg / Tech Industry News  Tue, 08/23/2011 - 08:29

There are probably over a billion people who’ve used pirated software some way or another. But how did it come about?

Do the torrenting pirates of today even know what a BBS is? What’s the most downloaded application? To answer the above and more Starmedia put together the infographic below.


 

Schwartz On Security: Piracy Equals Market Failure

InformationWeek Internet News  Fri, 04/15/2011 - 02:00

Legal actions to prevent or punish movie, music, and software piracy may be harmful to innovation as well as ineffective.


 

Pirates are not hackers and software piracy is also the Governme...

Linux Today  Fri, 02/18/2011 - 14:03

Stop: "In January 2011 Italian newspaper Repubblica published an article that is a nice example of how much confusion there still is, in mainstream press, about the nature of software and copyright, their relevance for all citizens and the responsibilities of Public Administrations in these fields"


 

Over $50 Billion NOT Lost due to Software Piracy

Linux Today  Sat, 05/15/2010 - 05:03

IT News Today: "If you've been paying attention to the IT industry for the last year or so you probably already know where I'm going with this: Making a claim that $50 billion was lost last year due to piracy is a very bold claim, and cannot be proven"


 

Is Microsoft’s Twitter Actually a Plurk Ripoff?

Mashable!  Tue, 12/15/2009 - 08:49

A couple of days ago we wrote about MSN Juku, Microsoft’s Chinese microblogging service that works as an extension of Windows Live Messenger and bears a strong resemblan


 

WHO CARES ABOUT SOFTWARE PIRACY ANYWAY?

Redmond Developer News | Tech Library  Tue, 08/25/2009 - 14:44

A DISCUSSION PAPER ABOUT SOFTWARE LICENSING AND COPY PROTECTION