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,

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…