Half of charges against Pirate Bay dropped
Only into its second day, the criminal copyright infringement case against file sharing site The Pirate Bay has already begun to crumble.
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18.2.2009 Microsoft gets serious about Windows piracy
Microsoft has been battling piracy since the beginning. But it seems as though they have finally had enough. In one of the more recent Windows Updates, Microsoft deployed what they feel is a step in the right direction for preventing the theft of their software.
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6.11.2008 New Windows 7 Anti-Piracy Features
Windows 7 will not reinvent the anti-piracy wheel for Microsoft. Instead, the next iteration of the Windows client will be based on Windows Vista's Software Protection Platform, especially in regard to the activation and validation experience.
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7.5.2009 Microsoft CEO Sees Less Piracy With Windows Vista
Microsoft expects software piracy, which costs the company billions of dollars every year, to ease with the introduction of its new Windows Vista operating system and Office 2007 software suite, CEO Steve Ballmer said Thursday
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2.12.2006 Microsoft Kills Windows and Office Validation Assistant Anti-Piracy Efforts
Microsoft's anti-piracy efforts will undertake a major overhauling. The Redmond company plans to take down both the Windows Validation Assistant and the Office Validation Assistant.
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5.7.2007 Europe votes on anti-piracy laws
Europeans suspected of putting movies and music on file-sharing networks could be thrown off the web under proposals before Brussels.
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8.7.2008 Microsoft Offers Vista Preview to Fight Piracy
Want to try Vista before you buy it? Microsoft now has a free online "test drive" of its Windows Vista operating system in its latest effort to fight software piracy and counterfeiting.
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23.1.2007 Russian Judge Dismisses Any Penalty in Piracy Case
MOSCOW, Feb. — A Russian judge convicted a provincial school headmaster on Thursday for using pirated Microsoft software in school computers, but declined to impose any penalty, saying that Microsoft’s loss was insignificant compared with its overall earnings.
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19.2.2007 Russian teacher fined in Microsoft piracy case
Putin has described the case as "utter nonsense" and former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev even asked Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates to intercede on the teacher's behalf.
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8.5.2007 BSA Raises the Stakes in Fight Against Software Piracy
The Business Software Alliance (BSA), the global organization representing the nation’s leading software manufacturers, today announced that it will intensify efforts to battle software piracy in the workplace by increasing its current rewards incentive from $200,000 to $1 million from July to October 2007.
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3.7.2007 WGA notches win for Microsoft in piracy bust
Microsoft’s anti-piracy effort may be annoying to some Windows users, but it has notched a big win catching the bad guys.
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25.7.2007 Microsoft Helps Nab $900M Piracy Ring
Microsoft is telling the tale of a major software piracy investigation that weaved through 22 countries, hoping would-be pirates will think twice if they know how far the company will go to protect its computer code worth billions in revenue each quarter.
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11.2.2008 Microsoft pre-paid cards to check software piracy
Check piracy of its software, Microsoft on Wednesday announced that it would launch pre-paid cards in India before this year-end.
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17.9.2006 Worldwide Software Piracy Rate Holds Steady at 35%
A new study reveals that 35% of the software installed in 2006 on personal computers (PCs) worldwide was obtained illegally, amounting to nearly $40 billion in global losses due to software piracy.
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16.5.2007 Microsoft to beef up anti-piracy checks in Vista SP1
Microsoft will change the user experience of its automatic anti-piracy checks in Windows Vista and also make it harder for hackers to bypass the system in the first service pack for the OS due out early next year.
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4.12.2007 Microsoft Denies Having Updated Vista's Anti-Piracy Platform or the WGA
Microsoft denied having introduced any sort of updates to the anti-piracy platform built into its latest operating system, Windows Vista or to the Windows Genuine Advantage mechanism designed to safeguard over the legitimacy of the copies of the operating system.
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12.9.2007 Vista SP1, and then Windows 7, Windows 8 and Non-Windows Midori
2008 saw the release of Windows Vista Service Pack 1, Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Windows Server 2008, but Microsoft's journey on the Windows path is far from over.
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5.8.2008 Windows 7 RC Brings Windows XP Mode Beta and Windows Virtual PC Beta
The Release Candidate of Windows 7 will bring with it the first Beta development milestones for Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC.
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29.4.2009 Windows Reactivator 2.0 - Backup & Restore Activation Status of Windows XP with Windows Reactivator
Every time you reinstall your windows XP you need to reactivate it online using your product key & worst if you lost your Windows XP product key.
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3.6.2009 Windows Vista SP1 vs. Windows Vista RTM vs. Windows XP SP2
Feb 26th, 2008. Principled Technologies has released two Microsoft commissioned reports on Windows Vista SP1 performance. In these tests, Principled Technologies measured responsiveness of Windows Vista SP1 vs. Windows Vista RTM vs. Windows XP SP2 when performing a set of common business and home tasks.
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28.2.2008 Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 9 – 1 Billion and Counting
Is Windows dead? Or, at least, is this the beginning of the end for Microsoft's proprietary operating system?
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15.9.2008 Week in Microsoft: Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 9
This week in Microsoft, we covered 128-bit support possibly coming to Windows 8 and Windows 9, Windows 7, Windows Mobile 6.5, Bill Gates, Office 2010 Starter, Microsoft MVP status, Windows Live Hotmail, the EU, and Microsoft Security Essentials.
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10.10.2009 Windows Vista Build 5231 and Windows Media Player 11 Leaks!
Windows Vista Build 5231 has leaked to the web. The new build is said to include Windows Media Player 11 included. View the screenshots below! This is a Main branch build that was released on September 12th, 2005 at 8:20PM.
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Windows Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3: Official Release Dates
A French website, PC Inpact, has posted the official Microsoft product change request forms for Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3.
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6.2.2008 Download Free Windows Vista and Windows XP SP2 Straight from Microsoft
Via the Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Image. That's right! Microsoft is offering access to free downloads of Windows Vista and Windows XP SP2.
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6.3.2008 Windows Vista SP1 outperforms Windows XP SP2 in file copy
"Its interesting that people seem to think that Vista under performs in every area of the system which is quite an incorrect perception.
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27.5.2008 Windows Fiji Has RTMd as Windows Media Center TV Pack 2008
Microsoft officially confirmed that Windows Fiji has been released to manufacturing.
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18.7.2008 Windows 7 Beta Doesn't Play Nice with Windows Azure Cloud OS Tools
The promise for Windows 7 is that it will deliver an evolution when it will come down to stretching into the Cloud compared to its precursor, Windows Vista.
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16.1.2009 Internet Explorer 8 MUI packs for Windows XP, Windows Server 03
As detailed in our previous blog post, the following Internet Explorer MUI packs shipped today.
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17.5.2009 Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 Beta adds Windows 7 support
Microsoft announced the release of Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 Beta, along with news that it will feature Windows 7 support.
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20.7.2009Russian Piracy Ruling Overturned
A Russian schoolteacher is
being forced to stand trial on
charges he pirated software
for a second time, as a
regional court overturned an
earlier ruling that had
dismissed the charges against
him...
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28.03.2007RIAA milestone: First criminal suit against MP3 trader could mean jail time
A member of Internet piracy group Apocalypse Production Crew (APC) under the handle Dextro (nee Barry Gitarts) has been found guilty of piracy, and
now faces criminal charges of up to five years in prison, a $250,000 fine and more...
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24.05.2008Three Indicted for 'Massive'
Piracy
U.S. charges trio in music,
software manufacturing
operation...
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14.10.2005Microsoft Takes Aim at Piracy and Outlines Windows 7 Anti-Piracy Experience
Q&A: Joe Williams explains how customer feedback has driven anti-piracy features for Windows 7 to ensure an optimal user experience and help protect
customers from the risks of running counterfeit software...
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07.05.2009Florida Man Gets Six Years for
Piracy
A Florida man has received a
six-year prison sentence after
being convicted of conspiracy
and copyright infringement
charges related to the sale of
pirated software. In addition
to the jail term, he has also
been mandated to pay $4.1
million in restitution...
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26.08.2006Microsoft Allowed to Appeal Novell Suit
Microsoft has won the right to appeal the remaining charges in its antitrust suit with Novell. The company successfully had half of the charges against it thrown out in mid-June, and U.S. District Court Judge J. Frederick Motz has ruled that there is sufficient evidence for Microsoft to challenge the remaining two charges...
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02.09.2005Microsoft Steps Up Anti-Piracy Effort in China
Microsoft is trying to fight piracy in China by ensuring that more new computers in the region come with genuine copies of Windows pre-installed at
the factory...
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07.11.2007Ex-RIAA Chiefs Start
Anti-Piracy Firm
Two former RIAA leaders, Jay
Berman and Hilary Rosen,
announced Thursday that they
were partnering to form an
anti-piracy consulting agency.
The two plan to focus on
intellectual property
protection, digital media
technology, international
trade issues and anti-piracy
strategies...
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02.02.2006Microsoft: Vista piracy rate is half that of XP
Microsoft said Monday that it's seeing piracy rates for Windows Vista that are half those of Windows XP.
Now cyncial me wanted
to write this up as "even pirates prefer XP two to one over Vista," but that wouldn't be fair. In reality, the decline in piracy rates is largely
due to the fact that Vista is much tougher to fake than XP.
"Piracy rates are lower because it's harder," Microsoft Vice
President Mike Sievert said in an interview Monday.
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04.12.2007Calif. AG Charges HP's Dunn, 4 Others
UPDATED Two former
Hewlett-Packard executives,
plus three others outside of
the company were indicted with
in California late Wednesday
on four felony charges. Those
named in the indictments
include former chairwoman
Patricia Dunn...
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05.10.2006Former Apple counsel settles options backdating charges
Nancy Heinen will pay the US Securities and Exchange Commission some $2.2 million in fines to settle charges related to the Cupertino company's stock
options scandal...
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16.08.2008AllofMP3 Exec Cleared of Charges
The former head of
Mediaservices has been cleared
of any wrongdoing surrounding
AllofMP3 after a Russian court
threw out charges against him...
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15.08.2007US Asks WTO to Stop Chinese Piracy
The US signaled that its
patience was wearing thin with
China on Monday, as it asked
the World Trade Organization
to crack down on piracy within
the country...
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14.08.2007Psystar charges Apple with 'kernel panic'
Psystar can no longer accuse Apple of breaking the Clayton and Sherman antitrust acts. But the Mac clone maker continues to take the offense in its
defense against Apple's charges of IP violations...
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12.12.2008FCC will probe charges of Comcast customer discrimination
Charges that Comcast intentionally throttled the traffic of BitTorrent users for anti-competitive reasons, has apparently prompted the Commission to
formally investigate the nation's largest CATV provider, its chairman said at CES yesterday...
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10.01.2008Microsoft Pushes New Piracy
Initiative
Expanding upon its Windows
Genuine Advantage program,
which requires customers to
verify their licenses before
downloading operating system
updates, Microsoft has rolled
out a new effort called the
Genuine Software Initiative.
The undertaking will combine
the company's anti-piracy and
counterfeit prevention
efforts...
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09.03.2006Microsoft Launches Piracy
Reminders
Microsoft on Tuesday said it
had completed the pilot phase
for WGA Notifications,
officially rolling out the
anti-piracy reminders to
Windows XP users worldwide.
The company has made minor
changes to the program in
response to customer concern
regarding its "phone
home" functionality...
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27.06.2006Pirate Bay Takes Over Anti-Piracy Domain
In yet another snub to anti-piracy efforts, infamous Swedish BitTorrent site The Pirate Bay has taken over IFPI.com, a domain formerly owned by the
recording industry group by the same name. IFPI, previously known as the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, pushes for anti-piracy
enforcement in 75 countries...
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15.10.2007Microsoft charges less than $15 for each XP netbook
Recently Gartner Analysis predicted that the sales of netbooks will grow nearly 80% this year to 21 million units, while overall PC sales decline by
11.9%. Given that netbooks are leading the PC market growth, Microsoft is forced to offer Windows XP for netbooks at a discounted price to gain high
share in netbook market. Microsoft hasn't revealed its pricing for netbook licenses publicly till now, but Wall Street Journal quoting unnamed
sources reports that Microsoft is charging only less than $15 per netbook for Windows XP, less than one third of the estimated $50 to $60
it receives for PCs running Windows Vista. Microsoft usually charges $30 for the Starter Edition of Windows meant for PCs.
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20.04.2009RIAA Piracy Trial Set to Begin Tuesday
The first piracy suit from RIAA to make it to trial starts Tuesday, with Jammie Thomas fighting accusations of sharing some 1,702 songs through the
Kazaa network.
Thomas is the first of the 26,000 sued by the organization to fight the charges. A large majority of those have
already settled out of court by paying a few thousand dollars. However, the Minnesota mother says she has done nothing wrong.
Lawyers for the woman say the record industry still has not solidly proven she shared the songs. RIAA begs to differ: in February 2005, contractor
SafeNet says it found her sharing songs under her account, and was able to download 26 pirated MP3s.
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