But in general, software piracy rates are declining, despite a small upward tick last year.
An apologetic computer hacker has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison, following a conviction of software piracy.
Bill Gates's company makes money by selling intellectual property, jealously guarding its programs' source code and fighting software piracy.
MGM's willingness to risk software piracy is seen as an indication of its wish to pioneer direct-to consumer systems for Hollywood films.
After a long discussion we realized our biggest problem was software piracy.
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It took the advent of software piracy and the birth of "intellectual property crime" to add a fillip to international efforts against counterfeiting.
It provides another measure of the scale of software piracy and allows for important year-over-year comparisons of changes in the software piracy landscape.
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Chinese government has implemented many laws to fight software piracy.
Console-based games giants Nintendo and Sony have steered clear of China, though privately imported boxes are available and Nintendo recently unveiled a games console designed especially to protect against the country's rampant software piracy.
"We take pride in the work we've created and are committed to helping reduce copyright infringement and software piracy, " said a spokesperson, who claimed that the firm handled many complaints from gamers who have been exposed to malicious software or fraud after joining a private server.
The smart cookies at the Social Science Research Council have spent three years researching media and software piracy in so-called emerging economies -- countries like Brazil, Russia, India and Mexico -- which has this past week resulted in a comprehensive report aimed at establishing the trends and causes of the unauthorized consumption of intellectual property.
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But its subtle lyrics mention neither software nor piracy.
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According to the Entertainment Software Association, piracy costs the industry eight billion dollars a year.
"So Obama has thrown in his lot with Silicon Valley paymasters who threaten all software creators with piracy, plain thievery, " Mr. Murdoch wrote.
The anti-piracy software loaded onto the CDs was meant to stop illegal copying, but it was found that the program inadvertently made computers vulnerable to viruses.
Now, however, the tables are turned for those who may have once been the bane of the music label--provided they recently bought its CDs which were loaded with controversial anti-piracy software.
For example, the piracy rate for software is over 85 percent in Indonesia, 80 percent in Vietnam, and 70 percent in Thailand.
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Beruk said the amount of money software companies lose through this piracy easily reaches into the millions and that the sellers can make thousands in as little as a week.
Two popular file-swapping software programs already enable video piracy via PC: Morpheus and Kazaa, which are used mostly to transport songs and grainy reruns of Seinfeld, The Simpsons and South Park.
Professor Harnad argues that what is at issue is what he calls 'self piracy': copyright was drafted to protect the author from theft of his product - but academics would be dealing with their own work, so comparisons with the widespread net piracy of music, text or software do not apply.
Another project: Dow is working with makers of digital videodisks and CDs in the music and software industries to produce a polymer that can help prevent piracy.
Another project: Dow is working with makers of digital video discs and CDs in the music and software industries to produce a polymer that can help prevent piracy.
Piracy concerns different types of works, including music, literature, films, software, videogames, broadcasting programs and signals.
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