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  • Quarter of all Aussie software is illegal

    Australia's software piracy rate is dropping, but not as aggressively as some in the industry would like.

  • Microsoft lawsuits claim 52 pirates' scalps

    Microsoft announced this week it has filed 52 cases against pirate software resellers in countries ranging from China and the Netherlands to the UK and US.

  • Surveys contradict on Aust IT infrastructure

    An American survey has ranked Australia's IT infrastructure as amongst the best in the world, in stark contrast to a recent OECD study that labelled Australian broadband, a key component of IT infrastructure, as one of the slowest and most expensive systems in the world.

  • Chinese crack US$2bn Microsoft piracy ring

    Chinese authorities, with the assistance of the FBI, have cracked a piracy ring allegedly responsible for manufacturing and distributing more than US$2 billion-worth of counterfeit Microsoft software.

  • US patent reform has ICT industry approval

    The high-tech industry has given the thumbs up to sweeping changes to the US patent system approved by the Senate and House committees last week.

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  • Software piracy: Hype versus reality

    Business Software Alliance's Bob Kruger defends new piracy stats which reflect a growing threat to digital copyrights.

  • Part II: Lundy vs. Williams

    This is the second part of our Q&A series between IT Minister Daryl Williams and his political foe, Kate Lundy. To read Part I, please click here.

  • Has Microsoft gone soft on piracy?

  • Rockin' on without Microsoft

    Sterling Ball, whose company is the world's leading maker of premium guitar strings, explains why he made the move to open source and why he's never looked back since.

  • Software pirates steal jobs in AU: BSAA

    A study has been released that claims reducing Australian software piracy from 27 percent of all software used to 17 percent could create 7,000 more jobs and boost local industry revenues by AU$5 billion over the four years till 2006.

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