Some in the central government believe piracy hurts Chinese economic growth, and they want to fight it.
We have joined forces to meet other challenges such as terrorism, piracy and proliferation.
If Google wants to do right by its developers it needs to get piracy under control.
But for Attributor, the company has various tools to help combat the piracy problem.
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Apart from music, movies and television based entertainment fell prey to digital downloading and piracy.
With Somalia in ruins the lure of piracy is unlikely to diminish anytime soon.
The point of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act was to protect content holders and prevent piracy.
Music executives worry about rising piracy and lament the lack of streaming services like Spotify.
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Two major record labels have opened up a new front in the war against online piracy.
Piracy is one thing, but account sharing is the great grey market of streaming services.
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According to the Entertainment Software Association, piracy costs the industry eight billion dollars a year.
We don't condone piracy, and we're not out to say, "Screw you" to the broadcast community.
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Piracy also nurtures organised crime across the world, and it stunts investment, growth and jobs.
Surely the solution to piracy lies in this direction, not through hollow legal threats.
But in reality the move does little to address the all-too-real problem of satellite television piracy.
But in general, software piracy rates are declining, despite a small upward tick last year.
Nevertheless, attacks linked to Somalia made up more than half the piracy incidents reported worldwide.
And nearly every group or government monitoring sea piracy believes that number is seriously undercounted.
"Piracy is not going away, " said Peter Chalk, an international security analyst at the RAND Institute.
Still, the incidents of piracy may not have been as rampant as in past Olympic Games.
"Film piracy is where MP3 piracy was in 1997, " he told the dot-com entertainment crowd.
And the US government has sent one man to China to fight counterfeiting and piracy there.
Google recently announced new measures to help developers fight piracy of Android applications.
Gaiman concludes his talk by saying that piracy is really a form of advertising.
Piracy concerns different types of works, including music, literature, films, software, videogames, broadcasting programs and signals.
That sort of thinking has caused plenty of pain for the piracy-battered music industry.
Chuck Grassley, for instance, was hacked in January 2012 in the heat Internet piracy debate.
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Such data weren't readily available when the MPAA sought to measure piracy in 2004.
But it explains why progress in fighting piracy tends to be measured by unusual yardsticks.
Asia is home to the world's three worst offenders in software piracy: China, Vietnam and Indonesia.
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