MANILA AFP — The Philippines is making progress in its fight against computer software piracy with 76 people arrested this year, an anti-piracy group said Tuesday. Tarun Shawney, the South Asian director of the Business Software Alliance, an anti-piracy watchdog body, said that while piracy rates in this country...
Apr. 22--Business Software Alliance BSA, the international association established by the software industry to promote a safe and legal digital world, has recently praised the Ministry of Economy and the government for its efforts in promoting anti-piracy initiatives. The Ministry of Economy MoE has offered its...
Dec. 20--In its continued efforts to bring down piracy rates in the Kingdom, Bahrain's Ministry of Information MOI recently conducted fresh raids on two IT resellers in the Kingdom. The raids that were conducted in cooperation with Microsoft and Business Software Alliance BSA resulted in the...
Nov. 23--In line with its commitment to ensure strict adherence to Intellectual Property Rights, the Kuwaiti Ministry of Information conducted a series of raids on three computer resellers involved in the use and trade of illegal software. The raids resulted in the confiscation of two computers,...
As long as there has been computer software, there have been people who don't want to pay for it. And these days, with fast Internet connections and cheap storage, it's easier than ever to be a software pirate. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...
NEEDHAM, Mass. -- New Membership in Business Software Alliance Complements Ongoing Initiatives PTC (Nasdaq: PMTC), the Product Development CompanyTM, today affirmed its strong stance against software piracy and announced that the company has become a worldwide member of the Business Software Alliance BSA. The BSA is an industry association...
EUROPEMEDIA-C2003 Van Dusseldorp & Partners - http://www.vandusseldorp.com/ The illegal use of software in the Netherlands fell last year by three percentage points to 36 per cent, and 28 per cent since 1994, reports the Business Software Alliance, BSA. In the eight...
By By Bob Mims, The Salt Lake Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 3--If you checked the software installed on computers in American homes and workplaces, about one program in four would be an illegal copy. That, according to a...
Peru , Feb 18, 2003 (El Comercio/SABI via COMTEX) As a result of the anti-piracy campaigns waged by the BSA Business Software Alliance, Indecopi Instituto Nacional de Defensa de la Competencia y de la Produccion de la Propiedad Intelectual and the Public Ministry, the...
Brazil, Dec 4, 2002 (Folha de Sao Paulo/SABI via COMTEX) The software piracy generates net gains of 700% in Brazil. The Brazilian software companies association Abes Associacao Brasileira das Empresas de Software and the BSA Business Software Alliance have performed 450 anti-piracy actions in...
Brazil, Dec 5, 2002 (O Globo/SABI via COMTEX) The Brazilian association of software companies Abes Associacao and BSA Business Software Alliance have reported 450 anti-piracy actions between January and November 2002. The Uniao de Combate a Pirataria, which joins several entities of the sector,...
By the time the driver of the Ford Transit van realized he was being followed, it was too late. Three unmarked police cars were on his tail, speeding through the business district of Katowice, Poland. Cmdr. Michal Terlega and his team of a dozen cops were closing in. Suddenly a...
By the time the driver of the Ford Transit van realized he was being followed, it was too late. Three unmarked police cars were on his tail, speeding through the business district of Katowice, Poland. Cmdr. Michal Terlega and his team of a dozen cops were closing in. Suddenly a...
Occasionally, the suggestion arises that software companies actually like certain forms of software piracy, especially in the corporate sector. It creates a dependence on software which can later be turned into legal license money. Now, even some software companies seem to think Microsoft is acting in this way. According to...
Occasionally, the suggestion arises that software companies actually like certain forms of software piracy, especially in the corporate sector. It creates a dependence on software which can later be turned into legal license money. Now, even some software companies seem to think Microsoft is acting in...
The Israel representatives of the Business Software Alliance BSA are setting out to file charges against two unnamed large organizations that have allegedly fired two workers for refusing to use pirated software. The BSA is an international group made up of software companies that fights software piracy. The actions are...
Organizations like the SPA and BSA believe raising awareness about the problem of piracy is the first step in solving it. Software piracy has slowly been moving to a more prominent position among the concerns faced by the software industry. Whereas a few years ago,...
Local law enforcement officials raided the homes and businesses of a number of software and hardware resellers in Brazil and Puerto Rico earlier this month, uncovering thousands of illegal copies of applications published by Autodesk, Lotus, Microsoft, Novell/WordPerfect and Symantec, marking an intensified effort against software...
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