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Software Piracy Rate FALLS to 80% in China?
March 16, 2010 – 12:19 am | No Comment

Business Week has reported on the state of Software Piracy in China – and it’s not iStock 000009361489XSmall 300x264 Software Piracy Rate FALLS to 80% in China?a pretty picture.…

Software Licensing Storm In a Teacup?
March 15, 2010 – 3:45 am | No Comment

SL.tv has been watching with interest the storm in the blogosphere over assassins creed 21 204x300 Software Licensing Storm In a Teacup?Ubisoft’s new copy protection measures.

The   new PC version of their best selling game Assassin’s Creed 2 was launched in the UK last week and no…

Cybersitter Software Developer suit accuses China, PC makers of software piracy
February 4, 2010 – 4:34 pm | No Comment

A California company filed a software piracy lawsuit on Tuesday against the Chinese government, two Chinese software developers, and seven PC manufacturers alleging that they illegally copied code from its Web content filtering program and distributed that code as…

Apple App Store Has Lost $450 Million To Piracy
January 13, 2010 – 3:05 pm | No Comment

Garrett W. McIntyre with Phil MacDonald of 24/7 Wall St claims in it’s research that piracy is rampant on App Store Apps due to the lack of security.

In their article of January 13 they say:

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Dell buys software license management company
November 25, 2009 – 3:37 pm | No Comment

IDG News Service – Dell Inc. has agreed to acquire ASAP Software Inc. in a move to meet demand from large customers for tools and services that help manage their software assets.

Under the agreement announced Thursday,

Software copy protection methods of old
September 21, 2009 – 10:11 am | No Comment

Saw this fun post at “pingdom” website and thought it was worth a mention to see how far copy protection has come.

You all may know that the CTO of Nalpeiron was once a cracker before he moved over…

Is the SIIA getting desperate in it’s bid to beat kid Software Pirates?
September 14, 2009 – 7:34 am | No Comment

This week I noticed that the SIIA had released a new video designed to change consumer (kid) behavior. It’s a copy of the campaign from 17 years ago and has a rapper trying to convince and educate…

ISV Viewpoint Podcast: Talking Software Licensing with the VP of the US Institute of Languages
September 10, 2009 – 1:33 pm | No Comment

PODCAST: Views and discussion about the use of Software Licensing in an ISV

Software Licensing PodcastIn this podcast Jason D. Poole, Senior VP of the US Institute of Languages, discusses his candid views on Software Licensing, Software Piracy and Software Copy…

ISV Viewpoint Podcast: Talking Software Licensing with the CTO of Alien Skin Software
September 8, 2009 – 12:32 pm | No Comment

PODCAST: Views and discussion about the use of Software Licensing in an ISV

Software Licensing PodcastIn this podcast Finley Lee, CTO Alien Skin, discusses his candid views on Software Licensing, Software Piracy and Software Copy Protection.

Alien Skin tried a number…

First successful criminal case to crack down on software piracy in China
August 21, 2009 – 3:02 pm | No Comment

Friday marked a landmark victory against Chinese piracy after a district court sent four men to prison and handed them hefty fines for distributing counterfeit versions of Microsoft’s Windows XP and other computer programs over the internet.

Huqin District…