Symantec is thought to be investigating and preparing legal action against suspected software pirates in Australia; the news comes just days after the company launched a US$15 million lawsuit against eight companies in the US.
Police have prosecuted a man for selling 200 pirated CDs and DVDs at a market in Sydney, resulting in a AU$22,000 fine.
Unlicensed software went a long way towards helping Romania build a thriving IT economy, according to the country's president, Traian Basescu, who chose Bill Gates' opening of Microsoft's global technology centre in Bucharest to admit the fact.
Australia experienced a small increase last year in the use of pirated software, keeping the overall piracy rate well above comparable nations, according to a survey published by the Business Software Association of Australia.
An admitted counterfeiter has agreed to pay Microsoft and Symantec US$1.1 million in restitution, a victory in the software industry's fight against software piracy.
Microsoft is going to let everyone -- even people with an illegal pirate copy of Windows XP -- download IE7 because the software giant really cares about the safety and security of all Internet users. (But don't mention Firefox ...)
It's been 345 years since physicist Robert Boyle published the experimental results confirming what is now known as Boyle's Law, which to paraphrase is: a gas will spread out to fill any available space.
Business Software Alliance's Bob Kruger defends new piracy stats which reflect a growing threat to digital copyrights.
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.
Steve Turvey of RMIT IT Test Labs provides an indepth view of the latest technologies to hit Australia.
Former White House staffer Jonathan Greenblatt believes Hollywood can respond to the challenge of new media but that it must first must reconsider its audience. Otherwise, Tinseltown's future is sure to turn ugly.
Commentary: The average fairy tale has more truth in it that some of the rubbish that's endlessly reiterated about software piracy.
Commentary: Amidst a rush of DVD burners, each one more surprising than the last, ZDNet Australia's reviews editor wonders why they're so popular all of a sudden.
Steve Turvey of RMIT IT Test Labs provides an indepth view of the latest technologies to hit Australia.
The software giant digs its roots a little deeper into the music business as Macrovision agrees to license its Windows digital rights management technology for CDs.
In June, on a long transcontinental flight to a major trade show, Office XP did a mean thing to me: It suspected me of piracy. And it locked me out. Well, Microsoft has gotten to the bottom of my awful XP-erience. Here's how, and what it found.
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