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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Kill the Grace Timer and OEM BIOS Windows Vista Cracks with Vista SP1
With the advent of Windows Vista, cracks also became available being designed to bypass the activation process of the operating system.
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4.12.2007 Microsoft Says Vista SP1 Needs to Speak the Same Language as Vista RTM
Microsoft says that Windows Vista Service Pack 1 needs to speak the same language as the RTM version of the latest Windows client. Otherwise there's no game.
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2.4.2008 Vista SP1 – Microsoft Could Not Have Given Less – Vista SP2 Anyone?
Microsoft had the chance to position the first service pack for Windows Vista as a panacea for the operating system, giving the platform nothing less than a fresh start and another take at the Wow.
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3.10.2007 Microsoft: Vista! Vista! Vista!
Microsoft has a single generalized answer to all life's problems, but especially end user protection, and that answer is of course Windows Vista.
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14.8.2007 Microsoft isn't done with Vista yet
There is still more work to be done on Windows Vista, said Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, on the day the company's highly-anticipated operating system is officially released to enterprise customers.
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2.12.2006 Microsoft boxes up Vista
Although it is still working to finish the code for Windows Vista, Microsoft has reached a decision on which versions of the operating system to offer.
Microsoft has settled on six versions, including an Ultimate edition that will combine the best of the company's corporate and consumer features. The company is aiming to have all of the versions ready for launch in the second half of this year.
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27.2.2006 Microsoft: Vista won't get a backdoor
Windows Vista won't have a backdoor that could be used by police forces to get into encrypted files, Microsoft has stressed.
In February, a BBC News story suggested that the British government was in discussions with Microsoft over backdoor access to the operating system. A backdoor is a method of bypassing normal authentication to gain access to a computer without to the PC user knowing.
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5.3.2006 Vista Might be too Complex for Microsoft
It will not have escaped your attention that Microsoft is laboring to finish the next version of its Windows operating system, Vista. A version aimed at the corporate market is supposed to be ready for Christmas, with the consumer edition following some time later (missing the Christmas market, which has irritated computer manufacturers and retailers more than somewhat). Last week, Gartner, a leading IT consultancy, predicted that Microsoft would miss those shipping dates.
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12.5.2006 Microsoft Vista is still a mess
We've had the pleasure of using Vista since its very early builds. The first release candidate is now upon us, and was made available to download by TechBeta and Technology Adoption Program program subscribers last week.
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13.9.2006 Windows Vista at Microsoft
Last Friday I took the plunge and upgraded my main work laptop (Sony VGN-TX3XP 11" Ultra-Portable) to Windows Vista RTM.
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10.11.2006 Microsoft to Testers: After Vista, What Next?
Windows Vista isn't even quite out the door, but Microsoft is already soliciting testers to tell them what should be in the next versions of Windows.
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21.12.2006 Microsoft Vista slow to take off
Windows Vista has been on the market for nearly a month now, but enterprise users and industry experts agree that Microsoft's latest and greatest OS still isn't yet ready to replace XP.
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3.1.2007 Microsoft: Vista upgrades for everybody
Windows Vista is starting to look like those Persian rug stores which are always having a 'closing down' sale. 'Full' prices are set laughably high only to make you think you're getting an amazing discount, because no-one pays the marked price.
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27.4.2007 So Where is Microsoft Vista SP1?
The April 25 release of a feature-complete Windows Server "Longhorn" beta is a monumental milestone for Microsoft, perhaps more important than the launch of Windows Vista.
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1.5.2007 What to do if Microsoft locks you out of Vista?
"What to do if Microsoft locks you out of Vista?" - This is question of lot of our users in last time, so here are some advices.
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17.8.2007Warner: Canada Source of Film Piracy
Warner Bros. announced this
week it would no longer hold
promotional screenings of
movies in Canada, and all
press screenings would take
place in a private room. The
move comes in response to
increasing movie piracy in the
country, which the studio
blames on lax laws...
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10.05.2007Europe 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.
The powers are in a raft of laws that aim to harmonise the regulations governing Europe's telecom markets.
Other amendments
added to the packet of laws allow governments to decide which software can be used on the web.
Campaigners say the laws trample
on personal privacy and turn net suppliers into copyright enforcers.
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07.07.2008Microsoft: 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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04.12.2007Microsoft 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. Once Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) is installed on a PC, that computer will
no longer go into limited functionality mode if a user or administrator fails to activate Vista on that system in 30 days, or if the system fails
Microsoft's Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) validation, which checks to see if a version of Vista is pirated or counterfeit. In Vista, WGA is
called the Software Protection Program feature.
In limited functionality mode, a computer will shut down after 60 minutes and then allow
only browser use. Now, instead of going into that mode, a version of Vista that has not been activated in 30 days will start up with a black screen
and a dialogue box that gives users the choice of activating Vista now or later, said Alex Kochis, a group product manager at Microsoft.
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04.12.2007Microsoft Discounts Vista in China
Aiming to curb piracy,
Microsoft said it had slashed
prices on its Windows Vista as
much as 67 percent to
encourage consumers to
purchase genuine copies of its
software...
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03.08.2007Microsoft 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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07.05.2009Microsoft Restricts Vista Transfers
Microsoft has changed its
licensing terms, limiting the
number of times that Windows
Vista can be transferred to a
new computer to just once.
Despite Redmond's claims that
the move is aimed at combating
piracy, it has been questioned
by some of the company's
biggest supporters...
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17.10.2006The Laws of Identity
Defining a set of fundamental principles to which any universally adopted, sustainable identity architecture must conform, the "Laws of Identity" were proposed, debated, and refined through an open and continuing dialogue on the Internet...
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31.08.2005Germany Passes New Data Retention Laws
Germany's Parliament passed new data retention laws last week that require Web and phone providers to retain their logs for up to six months, despite
the opposition of privacy advocates...
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14.11.2007Ex-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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02.02.2006Vista Anti-Piracy Will Drive People to Linux?
Oh, the wicked 2007
predictions people make, just
because it's the end of the
year. The good folks over at
IDC released their "Top 10
Predictions for Worldwide
System Infrastructure
Software, 2007." Overall,
it's a good list, although I
don't buy No. 9. IDC
predicts: "Microsoft's
client operating system
anti-piracy efforts will
backfire. Microsoft's
anti-piracy campaign will
drive customers toward
Linux."
Bwhahahaha. Somebody has
been tipping too much holiday
eggnog. The anti-piracy
campaign is biggest on the
desktop--so, what? IDC
suggests that Linux is finally
going to gain desktop traction
because of Windows product
activation? Oh the tears, I'm
laughing so hard.
More likely, new anti-piracy
mechanisms will drive
customers to Windows XP. More
onerous piracy checks apply to
Vista than its predecessor.
Microsoft's nightmare
situation is that customers
stick with Windows XP and
consume more Web-based
products or services as means
of extending operating system
capabilities without
upgrading.
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15.12.2006Microsoft 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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07.11.2007Lord Mandelson announces three-strike plan to reduce piracy
Lord Mandelson has clarified plans regarding the "three-strike policy" today, created in an effort to reduce piracy, according to the BBC. Whilst
the plans were initially opposed by many, Lord Mandelson also mentioned some benefits the new plans will provide, such as relaxed copyright laws in
regards to sharing. Lord Mandelson was speaking at the government's digital creative industries conference where he talked about the plans. He
emphasised that cutting off users would be a last resort, and, addressing the fears of some, stated that users would be able to appeal any decisions
to cut off their Internet access, if for instance, the disconnected user believed someone else was using their Internet connection.
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29.10.2009Microsoft, US Disagree on China Piracy
While Microsoft is confident
that sales in China will
increase as a result of a
crackdown on piracy in 2007,
the United States government
is not. It filed complaints
with the World Trade
Organization on Tuesday...
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10.04.2007Microsoft, Autodesk lose piracy patent appeal
The two companies will need to pay Michigan-based z4 nearly $160 million in total penalties for infringing on the company's rights to patents
surrounding anti-piracy technologies...
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28.11.2007US 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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14.08.2007Boost to anti-piracy check 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.
Once Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) is installed on a
PC, that computer will no longer go into limited functionality mode if a user or administrator fails to activate Vista on that system in 30 days or if
the system fails Microsoft's Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) validation, which checks to see if a version of Vista is pirated or counterfeit. In
Vista, WGA is called the Software Protection Program feature.
In limited functionality mode, a computer will shut down after 60
minutes and then allow only browser use. Now, instead of going into that mode, a version of Vista that has not been activated in 30 days will start up
with a black screen and a dialogue box that gives users the choice of activating Vista now or later, said Alex Kochis, a group product manager at
Microsoft.
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04.12.2007Safety First: Beefing Up Anti-Piracy Features in Microsoft Office
As the piracy trade becomes more sophisticated, the Microsoft Office Genuine Advantage program adopts an end-to-end approach to protect Office
customers from the risks of counterfeit software...
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25.08.2009Pirate 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 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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