Piracy is an illegally copying of protected content that infringes on the owner's copyright, costing them a potential sale.

Big vendors such as Microsoft and IBM say that they’re collectively losing billions of dollars a year in software sales because of piracy, and are working together and with government to address the ...

Slow, steady progress is being made in the fight against software piracy in the workplace, but Internet software piracy continues to be a problem, the Business Software Alliance (BSA) said in an ...

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 ...

The rate of global software piracy declined 10 percent in the past eight years, but there was only a modest 1 percent reduction from 2001 until now with a sharp increase in what piracy costs companies ...

Microsoft said Tuesday it had filed 26 lawsuits that allege computer dealers sold illegal software, the latest move in the software giant's effort to crack down on intellectual property piracy. The ...

Eastern Europe led the world in software piracy last year, followed closely by the Asia-Pacific region, the only area to see a rise in software copyright infringement, according to a new survey ...

The study found that for every $1 reduction in software piracy, the Microsoft ecosystem, including channel partners, gained $4.37 in new revenue and $1.13 in lower costs for a total gain of $5.50, ...

As some of you know, I'm very much into Linux and Linux is very much into GPL, though GPL software is available for any platform- and is actually picking up some following in the Windows world as well ...

Seven lawsuits in California, Maryland, New York, Texas and Virginia filed against nine individuals claim they illegally acquired the software through Microsoft Action Pack Subscriptions (MAPS), a ...

Efforts to curb software piracy in China are bearing fruit although the piracy rate remains high, costing vendors billions of dollars in lost revenue, according to a survey paid for by large vendors, ...