Software piracy is so widespread that it exists in homes, schools, businesses and government offices. According to the Business Software Alliance (BSA), an international association representing the ...

Washington, DC — May 15 — Well over half the world’s personal computer users — 57 percent — admit they acquire pirated software, the Business Software Alliance reported today in the ninth-annual BSA ...

BEIJING--"DVDs? CDs? Games? Porn? What you want?" hawkers in Beijing's Zhongguancun neighborhood whisper to potential customers. Asked for computer software, one scurries off to check his cache, kept ...

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 ...

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 ...

Software piracy grew in the Asia-Pacific region last year but leveled off in most regions of the world, according to a new survey by an industry trade group. The Global Software Piracy Study (download ...

Kenya remains on the top ten list of countries on the continent with high prevalence rate of computer software piracy. According to a report released recently by the Business Software Alliance (BSA), ...

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 ...

Despite aggressive tactics by U.S. agencies to crack down on illegal software warehouses, distribution of illegal software continues to rival legitimate software retail sales. Studies by industry ...

The co-leader of one of the oldest piracy groups on the Internet, arrested in December in a federal software piracy probe (see story), pleaded guilty yesterday to conspiracy charges in federal court.