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BSA Educational Site
BSA Educational Site
The Business Software Alliance has adopted a baggy-jeans-wearing cartoon ferret as the mascot of Playitcybersafe.com, a new Web site aimed at stopping kids before they make their first forays into software theft. The Web site aims teach kids "safe and responsible" computing practices, like avoiding the rampant software piracy.
Posted by rshah on May 12, 2003| Comments (0)
Black Market for Software Is Sidestepping Export Controls
Black Market for Software Is Sidestepping Export Controls
A black market has emerged for scientific and engineering software powerful enough to fall under United States export restrictions. Such software can be used in a wide range of tasks like designing rockets or nuclear reactors or predicting the path of a cloud of anthrax spores.
Posted by rshah on December 20, 2002| Comments (0)
In Satellite Piracy War, Battles on Many Fronts
In Satellite Piracy War, Battles on Many Fronts
Satellite TV piracy has become a multimillion-dollar industry in the United States, with as many as one million households illegally obtaining programming from the nation's two big satellite providers, DirecTV and EchoStar. The desire to tap into satellite channels without paying the monthly fees has spawned a loose distribution network of fly-by-night dealers and Web sites, raids by law enforcement agencies, and an electronic cat-and-mouse game between the pirates and the satellite companies.
Posted by rshah on May 09, 2002| Comments (0)
AOL not liable for unauthorized e-books
AOL not liable for unauthorized e-books
In a ruling that further clarifies whether Internet service providers are responsible for material on their networks, a federal judge ruled that America Online is not liable for the unauthorized posting of some e-books on its Web servers.
Posted by rshah on March 19, 2002| Comments (0)
MS Refocuses on Software Pirates
MS Refocuses on Software Pirates
Software pirates, long ignored by everyone but the software industry and those in search of cheap or free software, are increasingly coming under the scrutiny of government and law enforcement officials. Software pirates are now being arrested en masse. Pirates are also accused of using the proceeds of their software sales to fund terrorist organizations and organized crime, and of impairing their home countries' ability to participate in foreign trade and investment markets.
Posted by rshah on January 22, 2002| Comments (0)
BSA's Truce Campaign
BSA's Truce Campaign
The BSA's campaign is primarily a marketing effort essentially designed to scare people into buying more software. But for many enterprise customers who are quickly becoming fed up with the group's hardball tactics, the campaign is having the reverse effect: compliance, then departure to alternative products, like open source.
Posted by rshah on July 30, 2001| Comments (0)
Dumped Workers Find Revenge
Dumped Workers Find Revenge
The Business Software Alliance (BSA), an international organization that investigates program piracy for software developers, has noted a dramatic increase in the past year in the number of reports filed by ex-employees against technology companies.
Posted by rshah on July 03, 2001| Comments (0)
ISPs wary of role in anti-piracy actions
ISPs wary of role in anti-piracy actions
ISPs are stuck in an uncomfortable digital dragnet as record companies, Hollywood studios and independent copyright bounty hunters target their subscribers as pirates. Increasingly, service providers are even being asked to cut their subscribers' connections, a last-ditch proposition that these companies ordinarily avoid at all costs.
Posted by rshah on June 08, 2001| Comments (0)
Cell Phone Ringers: A Napster In The Making?
Cell Phone Ringers: A Napster In The Making?
By configuring its software to search for indicators that a site offers ring-tone downloads and then identify the related files, Coppin said the company found hundreds of sites that each are letting hundreds of thousands of downloads of musical ring tones daily, see also Slashdot
Posted by rshah on April 27, 2001| Comments (0)
Microsoft urges global antipiracy effort
Microsoft urges global antipiracy effort
During the past six months, police or corporate lawyers have moved against alleged software pirates in 20 countries, industry officials say. The motivation for Microsoft, by far the biggest victim of software piracy, is clear: During the past year, about five million units of Microsoft's products, valued at about $1.7 billion, were seized. Other companies pushing for more aggressive international action include Adobe Systems Inc., Autodesk Inc. and Corel Corp.
Posted by rshah on April 03, 2001| Comments (0)
Future of Copy Control
Future of Copy Control
Dave Powell and Copyright Control Services plans t knock out Napster & shut down warez with a combination of harassment and threats against their service providers, and social engineering.
Posted by rshah on February 22, 2001| Comments (0)
European law targets Net, tech piracy
European law targets Net, tech piracy
The European Parliament approved a new law curbing Internet and high-tech piracy, plugging a legislative vacuum in Europe.
Posted by rshah on February 14, 2001| Comments (0)
DOJ concerns shutter file-swapping servicesdf
DOJ concerns shutter file-swapping servicesdf
Citing Justice Department concerns, FreedDrive has shuttered a file-swapping service created for sharing personal files such as family photos but instead became a haven for software pirates.
Posted by rshah on January 23, 2001| Comments (0)
Big Blue touts new Napster-proof music locks
Big Blue touts new Napster-proof music locks
IBM's new tack is to allow a song to be copied and sent from person to person as often as consumers want. But built-in restrictions would be triggered by the copies, permitting the next person in line on Napster or an e-mail chain to play the song only once, hear 30 seconds or hear nothing at all.
Posted by rshah on January 23, 2001| Comments (0)
Auctions Sites and Music Piracy
Auctions Sites and Music Piracy
eBay and other auction sites have succeeded where Napster failed: Making money from bootlegged music.
Posted by rshah on January 18, 2001| Comments (0)
Carnegie Mellon Accuses 71 Students of Music Piracy, Unplugs Their Intranet Links
Carnegie Mellon Accuses 71 Students of Music Piracy, Unplugs Their Intranet Links
Carnegie Mellon University has disciplined 71 students for allegedly posting copyright-protected music on their sites within the university's computer network.
Posted by rshah on January 12, 2001| Comments (0)
BSA attacks piracy on IRC
BSA attacks piracy on IRC
The Business Software Alliance (BSA) today announced it has launched a new initiative aimed at shutting down illegal trafficking in software on the Internet. As part of the initiative, BSA has filed a lawsuit against twenty-five individuals allegedly participating in the "warez4cable" IRC channel, an Internet forum used to traffic in pirated software. This is the first lawsuit ever filed against individuals for pirating software in an IRC channel.
Posted by rshah on January 12, 2001| Comments (0)
Monitoring for infringing sites
Monitoring for infringing sites
New monitoring applications allow them to attack piracy not at the user level, but by going directly to the service provider.
Posted by rshah on January 03, 2001| Comments (0)
HP To Pay German Antipiracy Fee For CD Burners
HP To Pay German Antipiracy Fee For CD Burners
Hewlett-Packard has become the first company to be snagged by a German law requiring firms to pay fees for making CD burners that are being used to illegally lift the latest hits off the World Wide Web. The case sets the stage for other European countries to possibly adopt similar rules to stem an epidemic that cost the music industry an estimated $5 billion last year, see also Slashdot
Posted by rshah on November 27, 2000| Comments (0)
Piracy with Online Publishing
Piracy with Online Publishing
from NY Times, Music Piracy and the Home Recording Act
Posted by rshah on September 25, 2000| Comments (0)
Going after Users
Going after Users
The RIAA is going after users and their organizations for copyright infringement
Posted by rshah on September 19, 2000| Comments (0)
Pew study finds 13 million freeload music on the Internet
Pew study finds 13 million freeload music on the Internet
Posted by rshah on August 23, 2000| Comments (1)
Software Piracy
Posted by rshah on August 19, 2000| Comments (0)
Feds nab satellite TV thieves in sting
Feds nab satellite TV thieves in sting
Posted by rshah on August 08, 2000| Comments (0)
Sega cracking down on ROM sites
Sega cracking down on ROM sites
See also Slashdot
Posted by rshah on August 08, 2000| Comments (0)
Napster and Piracy
Napster and Piracy
How Napster turns otherwise upstanding citizens into recidivist outlaws -- and what the music industry can do to save itself by Salon
Posted by rshah on August 07, 2000| Comments (0)
Copyright infringement of Needlepoint Patterns Online
Copyright infringement of Needlepoint Patterns Online
Posted by rshah on August 02, 2000| Comments (0)
Protecting Intellectual Property on the Web
Protecting Intellectual Property on the Web
Different schemes
Posted by rshah on June 29, 2000| Comments (0)
Freenet
Posted by rshah on June 24, 2000| Comments (1)
Cyberpatrol
Posted by rshah on June 24, 2000| Comments (0)
Beam-It
Beam-It
RIAA Sues MP3.com
Posted by rshah on June 24, 2000| Comments (0)
DVD / DeCSS
DVD / DeCSS
See also Slashdot , totse , Salon , Village Voice , Hifi on DVD.
Posted by rshah on June 24, 2000| Comments (0)
Slump in French music sales blamed on piracy
Slump in French music sales blamed on piracy
Posted by rshah on June 24, 2000| Comments (0)
Pictures
Pictures
Penthouse policing the Usenet
Posted by rshah on June 24, 2000| Comments (0)