As the world moves toward an information based economy, one of the biggest and most expensive threats is software piracy. According to The Software Publishers Association, pirated software costs the ...

Forty percent of the students surveyed at two public universities admitted to having pirated computer software. The survey was completed by 703 students at the University of Florida at Gainesville and ...

BEIJING--When Bill Gates, the Microsoft chairman, played host to President Hu Jintao of China in Seattle last month, he learned that he had a customer at the apex of the world's biggest market. In a ...

Friday 2nd May/... A joint operation between West Yorkshire Trading Standards Service (WYTSS) and West Yorkshire Police on Sunday 27th April resulted in approximately 12,000 illegally copied discs and ...

Usually fierce rivals Symantec Corp. and McAfee Inc. teamed up to kick off the crusade by targeting five different eBay sellers in three lawsuits filed Monday in a Los Angeles federal court."If online ...

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said on Friday that beating software piracy in China and India and getting compliance up to U.S. and European levels would take 10 years. "In India and China it will be a ...

The full text of a letter from leaders of six major higher-education organizations to presidents of all American colleges. The full text of a letter from ...

Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko. Contributor/Getty Images. The government of Belarus has passed a law that permits the use of media and intellectual property, such as computer software, in ...

Attorney General John Ashcroft announces that law enforcement officials have conducted more than 100 searches around the world, targeting "warez" computer file-sharers. The loosely connected groups ...

Chinese government officials on Tuesday committed to increased protections for intellectual property such as software, saying they will step up criminal enforcement for software and entertainment ...

An online sting operation conducted by the Business Software Alliance (BSA) has resulted in charges against 13 U.S. defendants for allegedly selling pirated and counterfeit software through auction ...