You know this: “Using pirated software could harm your cash flow, damage your reputation, and result in data loss.”

So why repeat it? Well many folks seem to think it’s OK and some just “forget” what can happen to…

Newly formed Software Industry Research Board (SIRB) is offering to help businesses get their software licensing in order.

With software audits on the rise and fines from the BSA increasing the anti-piracy industry is makes resources available…

Another of the world’s largest vendors, other than Microsoft, is taking the pains to take pirates to court.

The Security vendor’s aggressive legal strategy to combat software piracy in channel continues to pay off in courts. Symantec Corp.…

V.i. Laboratories released new research showing how pirates go about “cracking” software the key groups responsible.

As the Flex platform from Acresso is most pervasive in the group studied (software with an average value of more than $4,000 USD…

Software licensing is a contract of agreement between a software publisher and an end user of the licensed application.

This tends to be regulated via a document called the End User License Agreement, or EULA. Though software licensing…

The problem with copy protection as a concept is that it creates as many questions as it solves.

There are many different types of copy protection working at many different levels. Companies wanting to protect their source code…

A fifth of PC software in the United States is pirated and the worldwide cost of piracy topped $50bn for the first time, says the annual report from IDC and the Business Software Alliance (BSA). Despite US piracy running…