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• iiBuy case a warning for resellers dealing with pirated software: Microsoft

  By Patrick Budmar | 30 April, 2012 16:15

  How much does it cost to infringe on Microsoft’s copyright?

• Anti-piracy FaceBook competition launches in Australia

  By Nermin Bajric | 08 August, 2011 11:53

  The Business Software Alliance (BSA) has launched an anti-piracy campaign in Australia via Facebook in an attempt to expose business software frauds.

• BSA: Litigation alone ineffective against piracy

  By Spandas Lui | 16 June, 2011 18:36

  BSA: Litigation alone ineffective against piracy

• U.S. government to crack down on piracy

  By Grant Gross | 23 June, 2010 03:23

  U.S. President Barack Obama's administration will seek to aggressively enforce its intellectual property laws by putting pressure on countries that don't shut down piracy Web sites and by requiring all government contractors to check for illegal software, the White House announced.

• Both sides claim victory in Rome court's privacy ruling

  By Philip Willan | 20 April, 2010 06:02

  Both sides claimed victory Monday after a Rome judge took a minimalist view of the responsibilities of telecom carriers for stamping out online piracy in a court battle pitting copyright defenders against Internet distributors and privacy interests.

• Microsoft's new 'phone home' anti-piracy practice unacceptable, says critic

  By Gregg Keizer | 13 February, 2010 08:14

  The Internet advocate who blasted Microsoft in 2006 over the daily "phone home" habits of its anti-piracy software took the company to task again today for a new practice that will examine consumers' Windows 7 PCs every 90 days to make sure they're running legitimate copies of the OS.

• Judge nixes class-actions in Microsoft WGA lawsuit

  By Gregg Keizer | 22 January, 2010 01:53

  A federal judge has killed class-action allegations in a lawsuit that accused Microsoft of misleading consumers when it fed them anti-piracy software under the auspices of a critical security update, according to court documents.

• Microsoft expands Office antipiracy 'nagging'

  By Gregg Keizer | 26 August, 2009 05:43

  Microsoft Corp. today announced it was expanding an antipiracy program for Office to the U.S., the U.K. and 11 other countries that will identify pirated copies of the suite and nag users with on-screen messages.

• French gov't passes illegal downloads legislation

  By Carrie-Ann Skinner | 14 May, 2009 06:28

  Legislation which will see illegal file sharers disconnected from the internet has been passed by the French National Assembly, despite initially being rejected last month.

• Microsoft gives controversial antipiracy tools new name

  By Elizabeth Montalbano | 08 May, 2009 04:07

  Microsoft has rebranded its Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) validation system in Windows 7, likely an attempt to shed the controversial image of the antipiracy program.

• Microsoft loses anti-piracy patent case

  By Nancy Gohring | 09 April, 2009 07:03

  A jury in Rhode Island found Microsoft guilty of patent infringement, ordering it to pay US$38 million to Uniloc, the patent holder.

• Pirate Bay trial gets massive online coverage

  By Jeremy Kirk | 18 February, 2009 08:42

  The eyes of the file-sharing community remained on Sweden on Tuesday as the trial of four men from The Pirate Bay continued in Stockholm.

• Pirate Bay trial to start on Monday

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 16 February, 2009 08:16

  The trial against four people involved in running The Pirate Bay, one of the most widely used BitTorrent trackers for music, movies and software, will start on Monday in Stockholm.

• Police arrest BitTorrent tracker operators in Brisbane

  By James Hutchinson | 04 December, 2008 12:10

  The Australian Federal Police (AFP) yesterday arrested and charged two Brisbane men with money laundering offences linked to a BitTorrent tracker site. A $54,000 bank account belonging to one of the men was subsequently frozen.

• Police raid Sydney piracy ring in Australia's largest bust

  By James Hutchinson | 03 December, 2008 12:01

  In what could be the largest piracy bust to date in Australia, NSW Police this morning seized an estimated 1 million DVDs and CDs in Sydney. The raids took place when police executed search warrants on four properties in Camden and one in the Green Valley area, uncovering the largest known cache of pirated music and Asian movies in Australia.