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PhonepayPlus, the organization that regulates premium rate services (PRS) in the United Kingdom, signed an agreement with the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) and the City of London Police as a measure to combat online piracy.
“PhonepayPlus is making a welcome proactive commitment t... |
3 November 2011
10:57 GMT |
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A rogue Android app being spread from unofficial markets shames pirates by sending embarrassing SMS messages to all of their contacts.It seems that the recent trend of repackaging legit Android apps with malware has inspired anti-piracy activists who have adapted the technique to teach copyright infringers a lesson.I... |
31 March 2011
03:52 GMT |
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Microsoft has killed off the anti-piracy mechanism designed to validate whether customers were running genuine copies of Office or not. And the Redmond company has been as quiet about the death of Office Genuine Advantage as it was about the recent release of Microsoft Security Essentials 2.0. However, the move was... |
20 December 2010
02:41 GMT |
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In excess of 300,000 people worldwide visited Microsoft’s antipiracy website to report counterfeit software in the past five years.Victims of software piracy complained that the fake software got their machines infected with malware, that it failed to function properly under a range of scenarios including acti... |
17 November 2010
09:05 GMT |
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The Windows Marketplace for Mobile, the application storefront Redmond-based software company Microsoft has put in place for the owners of any handset running under Windows Mobile 6.5, has been recently updated with a series of new features. Among them, the company included new anti-piracy protection features for the... |
14 November 2009
03:42 GMT |
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Microsoft is testing a new approach for fighting piracy. The Redmond company is looking to establish an anti-piracy heaven in Hangzhou, a city on the east coast of China. Essentially, the plan for Hangzhou is that it will evolve into a model information technology city, set to stand apart from the rest of China and i... |
18 May 2009
11:48 GMT |
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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. Microsoft is apparently going with an “if it ain't broken ... |
7 May 2009
10:44 GMT |
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Microsoft's online validation tools designed as anti-piracy mechanisms are increasingly applauded by the company for contributing to identify pirates of its software products. The Redmond giant has made available both the Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) and the Office Genuine Advantage (OGA) to protect its flag-... |
10 June 2008
06:54 GMT |
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With Windows Vista and the close integration of the Windows Genuine Advantage mechanism, Microsoft has taken an option to actively protect the operating system against piracy, on top of what activation has to offer. And while Service Pack 1 for Vista removed the Reduced Functionality Mode kill-switch from the latest ... |
6 May 2008
05:53 GMT |
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Microsoft is a perpetual participant in a race against software piracy in which the company has seen many small victories, but with no end in sight. While it has always been the policy over in Redmond to treat end users running counterfeit software products as victims of the piracy phenomenon, as much as Microsoft it... |
20 February 2008
06:25 GMT |
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As the leading software company worldwide, Microsoft is in a constant race to reduce the piracy phenomenon. This is why the company introduced initiatives such as Genuine Software Initiative, Windows Genuine Advantage, Office Genuine Advantage and even the Reduced Functionality Mode kill switch in Windows Vista. But ... |
13 February 2008
10:53 GMT |
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The notorious R4 chip, a little piece of plastic, not bigger than the back of your palm, and easy to use, is basically the modern pirate's tool since it allows Nintendo DS owners to play pirated games. Even though this is made in China, it is not an "Asian exclusive", since basically anybody can buy it from the ... |
1 February 2008
04:49 GMT |
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Peer-to-peer has been used by crackers and pirates for a lot of time now, to spread copyrighted material and cracked software. Free porn, MP3s, movies of any type, seasons of The Simpsons, illegal versions of Kaspersky, Windows boot CD images, and basically anything you want, you can get it from a P2P network. Howeve... |
25 September 2007
05:12 GMT |
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Youre watching a movie and when youre enjoying it most you see a message slide on the black band. And the message says that the movie is copyrighted and that any unauthorized copy or distribution will be prosecuted according to the law. If youve ever watched a move in a cinema, then youve seen that message. Also,... |
21 September 2007
09:35 GMT |
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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. However, Microsoft is going to fill in the empty spaces left by the discontinuing of WVA and OVA with Windows Comparison Guide (WCG... |
3 July 2007
11:34 GMT |
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Microsoft is just one of the U.S. organizations that let Vietnam fight their software anti-piracy fight for them. On June 21, 2007, Microsoft revealed that a group of both U.S. and Vietnamese organizations have inked agreements designed to help reduce the levels of software piracy. Asia in general, and Vietnam in par... |
22 June 2007
03:48 GMT |
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This has to be a Wow moment. I mean, what else would you call it, when Windows pirates go on strike against Microsoft because the Redmond Company has threatened to take measures against the illegal use of its software products? This is the case in India where Microsoft's anti-piracy initiatives have done nothing... |
22 May 2007
09:41 GMT |
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Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer returned to one of the greatest sights of an American defeat after the current Iraq war to score one for the Redmond Company. Present in Vietnam, Ballmer actively participated in cementing an anti-piracy deal involving Microsoft products in one of the markets known for ... |
22 May 2007
04:43 GMT |
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