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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 306 days ago
Via: http://www.infoworld.com | Tags: brothers sentenced software piracy comments Discuss  
Two brothers were sentenced Friday to multiyear prison terms for selling what the U.S. Department of Justice called "massive" amounts of pirated software online, the DOJ announced. read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 246 days ago
Via: http://www.infoworld.com | Tags: isps web sites tackle piracy cbs viacom chief comments Discuss  
Internet service providers, Web site operators, and manufacturers of devices that are used by some to pirate content should play a part in stamping out that piracy, Sumner Redstone, chairman and controlling shareholder of both Viacom and CBS, said on Tuesday. read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 237 days ago
Via: http://www.infoworld.com | Tags: ebay seller pleads guilty software piracy charges comments Discuss  
A 23-year-old Oregon man has pleaded guilty to charges that he used identity theft to set up bogus accounts on eBay, where he sold counterfeit software with a retail value of more than $1 million, the U.S. Department of Justice said. read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 211 days ago
Via: http://www.infoworld.com | Tags: microsoft hits us resellers piracy lawsuits comments Discuss  
Microsoft has filed 21 lawsuits in 14 U.S. states against resellers in which it alleges they engaged in the sale of pirated software, it said Tuesday. read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 167 days ago
Via: http://www.infoworld.com | Tags: software piracy hurts opensource community too comments Discuss  
Proprietary software vendors, movie companies, and the music industry aren't the only businesses that don't like pirates stealing, copying, and reselling their CDs and DVDs. It turns out that pirated software can also hurt the open-source community. read more »
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Category: blogs | Posted by Avatar Staff 166 days ago
Via: http://blog.washingtonpost.com | Tags: man years id theft software piracy comments Discuss  
A 23-year-old Oregon man was sentenced this week to four years in federal prison for using computer viruses to steal financial data from dozens of consumers. Investigators say the man used the information to set up multiple eBay and PayPal accounts, which helped him sell more than $1 million worth of pirated software. Jeremiah Joseph Mondello, of Eugene, Ore., admitted distributing keystroke logging programs via online instant message networks. Investigators say he then used bank...Please click on the titl read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 166 days ago
Via: http://www.infoworld.com | Tags: software group weighs piracy lawsuit ebay comments Discuss  
A trade group representing hundreds of software vendors is considering a lawsuit against eBay for what it calls widespread sales of counterfeit software on the auction site. read more »
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Category: blogs | Posted by Avatar Staff 154 days ago
Via: http://voices.washingtonpost.com | Tags: man years id theft software piracy comments Discuss  
A 23-year-old Oregon man was sentenced this week to four years in federal prison for using computer viruses to steal financial data from dozens of consumers. Investigators say the man used the information to set up multiple eBay and PayPal accounts, which helped him sell more than $1 million worth of pirated software. Jeremiah Joseph Mondello, of Eugene, Ore., admitted distributing keystroke logging programs via online instant message networks. Investigators say he then used bank...Please click on the titl read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 100 days ago
Via: http://www.infoworld.com | Tags: ip piracy passed us congress comments Discuss  
The U.S. House of Representatives on Sunday passed a bill that would significantly increase penalties for copyright infringement and create a new office of intellectual-property enforcement coordinator in the White House. read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 79 days ago
Via: http://feeds.ziffdavisenterprise.com | Tags: microsoft launches global effort fight software piracy comments Discuss  
Microsoft is launching a global effort to fight software piracy. As part of the effort, the company has filed 20 lawsuits against software resellers in the U.S. for selling pirated copies of Microsoft Windows XP and various versions of Office. - Microsoft is partnering with customers and governments around the globe to combat counterfeit software . Dubbed Global Anti-Piracy Day, the effort includes a series of education and enforcement actions in 49 countries.As part of the strategy, Microsoft has filed read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 54 days ago
Via: http://feeds.ziffdavisenterprise.com | Tags: tracking crackers software piracy comments Discuss  
Vendors are waging a losing battle against software pirates. With V.i. Labs, eWEEK takes a look at how software pirates promote their wares on the Web. - According to the Business Software Alliance, more than one-third of all software installed on personal computers worldwide is pirated, costing the software industry nearly $48 billion. At one end of that food chain is the consumer. On the other end is the network of crackers, suppliers and distribu... read more »
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