Gorbachev to Gates: Show software 'pirate' mercy
MOSCOW, Russia (Reuters) -- Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on Monday asked Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates to intercede on behalf of a Russian teacher accused of using pirated software in his classroom.
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5.2.2007 Microsoft to lock pirates out of Vista PCs
Windows Vista will have new antipiracy technology that locks people out their PCs if the operating system isn't activated within 30 days after installation.
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4.10.2006 Microsoft attempts to lock down Office
Microsoft is touting a new set of security features designed to lock down Word and Excel. The software giant said it hopes the move will end Office's run as a favourite target of malware authors and remote attackers.
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1.5.2007 Microsoft Promises to Lock Down the Windows Core
No matter how bulletproofed will Microsoft manage to get the Windows operating system, there will always be an alternative avenue for attacks. And while targeting the Windows core, one of the preferred methods for attackers is to piggyback ride on faulty and vulnerable third-party drivers, in this manner gaining kernel level access.
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14.11.2007 Microsoft patents watermark technology that may lock down DRM-free music
Microsoft has won a patent for a digital-watermarking technology that could be used to protect the rights of content owners even when digital music is distributed without DRM protection.
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12.9.2007 Vista Retail DVD on Pirate Websites
Copies of Windows Vista Retail DVE have been ripped and made available for download free of charge on pirate websites and peer-to-peer networks.
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7.2.2007 Pirate Bay Bloodied but Unbowed
The once Swedish-based Bittorent site The Pirate Bay claims the problems many visitors have noticed on the resurrected piracy hub are the result of a glut of new users, rather than recent troubles with police.
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7.6.2006 Pirate Bay: We're not going to pay our fines
Remember that recent Pirate Bay verdict? The one in which the four founding members of the website were convicted with a year long jail sentence and a $3.6 million fine?
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22.4.2009 Sunken pirate ship back on the surface
As expected, The Pirate Bay is back online - in the Netherlands. An IP check shows it's hosted at Leaseweb, the same server Newnava and Torrentspy use. This provider doesn't easily move when threatened with law which is probably the reason for the choice.
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3.6.2006 Microsoft forces pirate to advertise his guilt
A software pirate has been forced to take out an advertisement in the computer press after Microsoft won a legal case against him.
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2.5.2007 The Pirate Bay To Bring Back OiNK
The Pirate Bay is currently working on an OiNK replacement in an attempt to bring the hundreds of thousands of music albums back online that disappeared during the raid. The replacement will be released within a week and on the BOiNK.cd domain.
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26.10.2007 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 Controversy over new Pirate Bay Facebook feature
The Pirate Bay has added a small, but significant feature to their website which will almost certainly prove to be controversial.
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31.3.2009 The Pirate Bay making over €20,000 a day
The file sharing site The Pirate Bay are set to be making over $25328 a day, with single day advertisements costing €20,000.
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16.7.2006 Pirate Bay to offer cheap, unlogged VPN
Back in July 2008, torrent tracker The Pirate Bay announced plans to encrypt the Internet. That hasn't happened yet, but they plan to offer a VPN tunneling service to the public starting April 1.
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24.03.2009 The Pirate Bay Moves to Counter Swedish Wiretapping Law
The Pirate Bay is adding encryption to its Web site in order to counter a new Swedish law that allows wiretapping of Internet and phone traffic.
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24.6.2008 The Pirate Bay found guilty, jail & $3.6 million fine
The Pirate Bay, notorious for providing BitTorrent files of all things copyrighted and illegal have lost a trial in Sweden today.
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17.4.2009 Authorities Order BitTorrent Pirate to Move from Ubuntu Linux to Windows
Scott McCausland, aka sk0t has seen better times, but as it appears, he is all out of luck lately. For McCausland it all went downhill with an illegal download of Star Wars: Episode III over a peer-to-peer file sharing network.
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25.8.2007 Forced Software Upgrades Can Add Up for Vista Users
Windows users contemplating the cost of upgrading to Vista may need a fatter wallet than they thought.
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6.3.2007 Certified for Windows Vista Software Demo Video
Over the past few weeks, we have been talking about the Certified for Windows Vista Logo Program specifically related to devices. That’s only half the story.
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24.6.2007 Pirate Bay copyright infringement trial begins, founders plead not guilty
Today marked the first day of the criminal copyright infringement suit against The Pirate Bay that was initiated in Sweden one year ago by Warner Brothers, Columbia Pictures, Sony BMG, EMI, Universal, Metro Goldwin Mayer and 20th Century Fox.
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16.2.2009 Windows Vista Beta 2: Largest software download in history
In an instant message chat, Microsoft has told the Windows Featured Communities that the demand for Windows Vista Beta 2 has been overwhelming.
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10.6.2006 A Software Compatibility List for Microsoft Windows Vista RC 1
Iexbeta has a nic Wiki page with a huge list of software and its compatibility with Windows Vista.
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29.9.2006 Microsoft changes Software Assurance licensing
Microsoft has made changes to its Software Assurance licensing program, including benefits and asking corporations to pay up for Windows Vista enterprise edition when the new operating system finally ships next year.
Software Assurance (SA) was launched in the US in 2001. Customers paid an annual fee of 25 to 29 percent of the outright licence for the right to upgrade over a two or three year period.
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Microsoft: No Office Software for Linux
Future of open-source software debated at LinuxWorld conference.
Microsoft will not release a version of its Office suite software for open-source rival Linux, though the company is actively studying how Linux works and how it can integrate with the platform, a Microsoft representative says.
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Used Microsoft Software for Sale: Cheap!
When Microsoft software reseller
Disclic began selling secondhand Microsoft software last week, a number of Microsoft watchers proclaimed "They can't do that, can they?"
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15.11.2005 Google developing eavesdropping software
The first thing that came out of our mouths when we heard that Google is working on a system that listens to what's on your TV playing in the background, and then serves you relevant adverts, was "that's cool, but dangerous".
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3.9.2006 Tesco.com moves into software sales
Tesco has announced it is to move into the software market, with the launch of a range of low-cost office productivity applications set to challenge Microsoft, Symantec and other big-name incumbents.
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4.10.2006 Microsoft Robotics Software Out of Beta
Microsoft on Wednesday officially released its robot software development environment, aiming to put the company in the center of robotics by licensing out its operating system to hobbyists and companies alike.
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13.12.2006 MySpace plans parent software
MYSPACE plans to offer free parental notification software in a bid to appease government critics, The Wall Street Journal has reported.
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18.1.2007Pirate Bay Developing BitTorrent-like Protocol
The Pirate Bay is pushing forward with the development of a new software standard that makes it easier for downloaders to pirate media files, as
BitTorrent works to become more legit...
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07.11.2007The Pirate Bay four get an appeal
The Swedish court has ruled that the Pirate Bay four will receive an appeal, scheduled for November 9, 2009. The Pirate Bay four were convicted of
"assisting in making copyright content available" through their website, The Pirate Bay. The ruling had put massive fines on the Pirate Bay four,
at $3.6 million ($905,000 each) in fines and face up to one year in prison each. Since the trial, the Swedish government has ruled the four
defendants "too broke" to pay for the damages. Instead the Swedish authorities started sending cease and desist letters to one of the Pirate
Bay's ISP, bringing the website down. The website was later restored within hours of the shut down.
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04.09.2009The Pirate Bay tracker gone for good
Today marks the end of an era, the end of The Pirate Bay tracker. The website is still up and running, but the owners of The Pirate Bay have decided
to turn off their tracker and will not be re-enabling the tracker, leaving the DHT enabled for now. With the end of The Pirate Bay, the largest
BitTorrent on the Internet, it appears that the courts have finally made an impact on pirating around the world. This makes a success for MPAA and
RIAA, finally managing to get enough service providers to disconnect The Pirate Bay, making it extremely difficult for them to relocate and keep the
site running.
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17.11.2009After pirate lands in prison, software group hints at eBay lawsuit
After convicted software pirate Jeremiah Mondello pulled a 48-month federal prison stretch on Wednesday, an industry anti-piracy group announced six
more lawsuits against individual piracy suspects -- also reportedly hinting that eBay could be the next one to get hauled into court...
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26.07.2008Swedish software firm agrees to buy Pirate Bay, go legal
Swedish software company Global Gaming Factory X AB said on Tuesday it had agreed to buy file-sharing website The Pirate Bay for 60 million Swedish
crowns ($7.7 million). The Pirate Bay is one of the 100 most visited websites in the world and hosts torrent files for a magnitude of illegal
content. The 4 owners named as Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Carl Lundstrom and Peter Sunde were sentenced to 1 year in prison earlier this
year for "aiding in copyright infringement" coupled with a fine of 30 million Swedish kronor (£2.4 million/$3.6 million).
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30.06.2009Pirate Party predicted to gain seat in EU elections
According to an article by TorrentFreak, Sweden's Pirate Party seems all set to gain a seat in the EU Parliament, according to polls in Swedish
newspaper DN.se. The Pirate Party has received significant attention since the Pirate Bay Trial. The party is predicted to gain 5.1% of all votes in
the EU elections, which are taking place this June. Should they gain that, they would be guaranteed a seat in the EU Parliament. The party has over
41,750 members, and will soon be the third largest political party in Sweden. The Young Pirate youth organisation, associated with the Pirate Party,
is currently Sweden's largest youth organisation, based on the amount of members it has.
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01.05.2009Pirate Party wins seat in European parliament
Elections for the European Parliament were held in most European countries today, and, as many expected, Sweden's Piratpartiet, or Pirate Party,
has won a seat with over 7% of the vote, according to The Local. Many people associate the Pirate Party with file-sharing, but their aims are wider.
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08.06.2009Surge in Pirate Party/Young Pirates membership after verdict
In just seven hours following the sentencing of the "Pirate Bay Four" earlier today, more than 3,000 people have joined the Piratpartiet, the
"Pirate Party", one of the seven parties represented in the Riksdag, Sweden's parliament. The influx of new people make Piratpartiet larger in
terms of membership than three of the other seven parties represented with parliamentary seats. According to their press release (translated by
Google), Rick Falk Vinge, the party leader, states that the "ruling
means that our political work must now be stepped up. We
want to ensure that the Pirate Bay activities - to link people and information - is clearly lawful.
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neowin.net - 18.04.2009
Pirate Bay deal may be overboard
According to an article posted on The Next Web, the latest chapter regarding the acquisition of The Pirate Bay, may prove difficult to complete. The
Global Gaming Factory or GGF for short, is the latest firm looking to get their hands on the infamous Bittorrent tracker. The Pirate Bay has announced
that the proposed deal with GGF, which will attempt to make The Pirate Bay legitimate, may have run aground due to some issues regarding bankruptcy
with the GGF. The deal may fail due to a winding up order, an order made by the Court for a company to be placed into compulsory liquidation.
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neowin.net - 08.10.2009
Torrent Site The Pirate Bay
Returns
Popular Swedish BitTorrent
site The Pirate Bay came back
online Saturday night, after
being shut down in a police
raid last week and forced to
relocate to The Netherlands.
The raid prompted a response
from Pirate Bay supporters,
which attacked the Web sites
of the Swedish police and
government...
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"Biased" judge: retrial for Pirate Bay Four?
According to the Local, it appears that Tomas Norström, the judge who presided over the case against the Pirate Bay Four, may have had a conflict
of interest which could have led to bias and an unfair trial. Peter Althin, lawyer for one of the Pirate Bay defendants, plans to demand a retrial on
the grounds that Judge Norström has over the years held membership in a number of organizations advocating for stronger copyright laws and with
ties to big media companies, including some represented in the case against the Pirate Bay.
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neowin.net - 23.04.2009
The Pirate Bay officially sunk
Today marks victory for Swedish authorities and Hollywood and a sad day for file sharing. Today the Swedish Authorities have ordered The Pirate Bay
to be taken offline immediately or the ISP could face heavy fines of 500,000 Kroner ($70,600 US) a day. The Pirate Bay's ISP had no choice
but to comply and disconnect the website from the Internet. The take down of The Pirate Bay comes 3 days earlier than expected, as the site was going
offline on August 27 or legalize the site before then, which was unlikely to happen.
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neowin.net - 24.08.2009
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...
betanews.com - 17.02.2009
The Pirate Bay sale unlikely to happen
Some of the biggest news recently, in the shady side of the Internet, was that torrent search engine The Pirate Bay was to be sold and then converted
into a legal operation. Many people were quite distraught about this, though optimistic, due to the sheer number of similar sites out there, but it
appears that all this fuss might be about nothing. TorrentFreak are reporting that the potential buyers, Global Gaming Factory, haven't gathered
enough money to buy the website, and that the owners of The Pirate Bay have given them a week before the deal is off.
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neowin.net - 29.07.2009
Swedish Police Attempt to Block The Pirate Bay
A press
release from the Swedish
Pirate Party is reporting that
the Swedish police are
attempting to block access to
The Pirate Bay by
reclassifying it as a child
pornography site. ISPs would
then be asked to voluntarily
block access to all Swedish
citizens.
The Pirate
Bay has been a thorn in the
entertainment industry for its
nearly four year existence.
They have also thwarted
numerous legal attempts to
force it off line, including a
May 2006 raid that failed to
negate this immensely popular
BitTorrent tracker.
Because of the inability
to banish this nuisance from
the face of the Internet, the
Pirate Party is taking the
position that this latest
attempt is nothing more than a
desperation move by the
authorities...
winbeta.org - 07.07.2007
The Pirate Bay must pay half of their fees now
The Pirate Bay is having a bad time after losing the court case about copyright infringement, and the threat of spending up to a year behind bars due
to the massive public torrent web site. The debt collectors now wants nearly half of the money owed (out of the $3.6 million US owed) soon, or
the four web site owners could face stiffer penalties. The owners behind The Pirate Bay may see bank accounts frozen if the money is not paid soon,
putting The Pirate Bay in a rough spot, especially if they cannot afford to pay their monthly server fees to keep the web site online.
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neowin.net - 14.05.2009
Accused software pirate denounces Microsoft
A software dealer who Microsoft charged with engaging in the sale of pirated software is vowing to fight back. Next week he plans to file a complaint
with the European Commission alleging abuse of power and anti-trust violations.
Microsoft Monday filed a legal complaint against
Samir Abdalla, an entrepreneur from The Netherlands, claiming that he illegally sold software in the U.S. that was intended for educational markets
outside the United States. He is alleged to have made US$3.6 million from the business. The suite was filed in Los Angeles, together with seven
complaints against other software dealers from Canada, Egypt and the U.S.
winbeta.org - 09.05.2008
The Pirate Bay trial and a tough new Swedish law
According to the Local, various members of the IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry) have taken the stand in the ongoing trial
against the Pirate Bay now unfolding in Sweden. At one point, John Kennedy, chairman of the IFPI, was silenced in the middle of his testimony by the
judge after Per E. Samuelson, defence attorney for the Pirate Bay, protested that Kennedy had drifted into giving what amounted to a "political
speech" on behalf of the recording industry.
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neowin.net - 26.02.2009
The Pirate Bay Moves to Counter Swedish Wiretapping Law
The Pirate Bay is adding encryption to its Web site in order to counter a new Swedish law that allows wiretapping of Internet and phone traffic. The
Pirate Bay is one of the most widely used BitTorrent trackers for music, movies and software.
"Many people have asked me what we're
planning to do, and the answer is 'A lot!'" spokesman and co-founder Peter Sunde wrote in his blog. "This week we're going to add SSL
to The Pirate Bay".
neowin.net - 24.06.2008
The Pirate Bay: The Site is Safe, Even If We Lose in Court
In an few hours from now The Pirate Bay team will probably be charged with aiding or facilitating copyright infringement. If they are found guilty,
they could receive sentences of up to 2 years in prison, but the site will remain online, no matter what. Last month, the Swedish authorities
announced that they were planning to press charges against 5 people involved with The Pirate Bay, stating that the 5 individuals will be charged with
“facilitating copyright infringement”.
Today, after nearly two years of collecting evidence, the prosecutor will officially
press charges. But, no matter what the outcome of the case, The Pirate Bay says that they’re here to stay.
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neowin.net - 01.02.2008
