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
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Pirated copies of Windows 7 RTM can be turned fully genuine, according to Microsoft, but only if the platform was genuine to begin with. The Redmond company has documented two workarounds designed to allow customers to save their copy of Windows, provided that Windows 7 managed to go rogue. According to the software ... |
14 January 2010
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A research conducted by the Business Software Alliance revealed that Armenia has the highest piracy rate of all the countries in the world with no less than 93 points in 2007 and 95 in 2006. Armenia is followed by Bangladesh and Azerbaijan, with 92 points each. According to findings published by BSA, the global pirac... |
29 May 2008
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Although software piracy loses ground and is declining in most countries of the world, due to the fast growing computer industry in the countries with high piracy rate, the worldwide piracy rate reached the 38 percent milestone, the Business Software Alliance revealed in a new report. According to the findings, the l... |
15 May 2008
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The counterfeited software has always represented a problem for both software companies and consumers and the phenomenon is getting stronger nowadays. It appears that pirated technologies are available even in retail stores, which makes the fight against such software almost impossible. According to "PC World", ther... |
7 December 2007
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We all know that having a genuine version of Windows Vista comes with support from Microsoft, updates and lots of other goodies but sometimes, all you need to become a software pirate is a simple Vista error. At least, this is what happened to James Bannan who described on the APC Magazine website a pretty weird situ... |
24 October 2007
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Microsoft will validate as genuine all copies of Windows Vista and Windows XP that pass through the Windows Genuine Advantage in scenarios in which the WGA servers are down, the Redmond company informed. In such cases, even pirated copies of Windows Vista and Windows XP will not be flagged as non-genuine, permitting ... |
30 August 2007
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