As the world moves toward an information based economy, one of the biggest and most expensive threats is software piracy. According to The Software Publishers Association, pirated software costs the ...

BEIJING--"DVDs? CDs? Games? Porn? What you want?" hawkers in Beijing's Zhongguancun neighborhood whisper to potential customers. Asked for computer software, one scurries off to check his cache, kept ...

Friday 2nd May/... A joint operation between West Yorkshire Trading Standards Service (WYTSS) and West Yorkshire Police on Sunday 27th April resulted in approximately 12,000 illegally copied discs and ...

Forty percent of the students surveyed at two public universities admitted to having pirated computer software. The survey was completed by 703 students at the University of Florida at Gainesville and ...

A two-year federal investigation into international software piracy over the Internet culminated yesterday in the serving of more than 100 search warrants against suspects allegedly involved in piracy ...

BEIJING--When Bill Gates, the Microsoft chairman, played host to President Hu Jintao of China in Seattle last month, he learned that he had a customer at the apex of the world's biggest market. In a ...

Usually fierce rivals Symantec Corp. and McAfee Inc. teamed up to kick off the crusade by targeting five different eBay sellers in three lawsuits filed Monday in a Los Angeles federal court."If online ...

Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko. Contributor/Getty Images. The government of Belarus has passed a law that permits the use of media and intellectual property, such as computer software, in ...

Losses to the worldwide software industry resulting from the use of unlicensed software amounted to $10.97 billion in 2001, down from $11.75 billion in 2000, according to a report released today by ...

LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- Piracy continues to represent a major thorn in the side of software vendors, with over a third of software installed last year on the world's computers having been pirated ...