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Pirated software distributors get jail time in China
A Chinese court has sentenced four pirates to jailtime and given the site a 11 million yuan ($1.6 million USD) fine for their part in distributing ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/19001.cfm - 21 August 2009

Man faces $210,000 fine for selling counterfeit software
A judge has ruled today that Matthew Miller of Delaware must pay $210,000 in damages and court costs for selling hundreds of counterfeit copies ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/18946.cfm - 18 August 2009

Piracy cost software industry $50 billion, says BSA
According to a new annual study from the Business Software Alliance, losses related to software piracy amounted to $50 billion USD last year, ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/17939.cfm - 13 May 2009

For the BSA, Somali pirates and software pirates are the same
The Business Software Alliance has decided to hijack the "real" cases of piracy that have been highlighted in the mainstream media in the past ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/17579.cfm - 14 April 2009

Piracy has 'tragic' impact on US society, says BSA
The Business Software Alliance released a new report yesterday claiming that software piracy in the United States has cost the industry $11.4 ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/14878.cfm - 22 July 2008

UAE sees 52 percent rise in software piracy
Officials in the United Arab Emirates have said they are growing more and more concerned with the rising levels of piracy in the region despite ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/14562.cfm - 22 June 2008

Finnish police target 'top sites' in Oulu
Finnish authorities have targeted the operators of so called "top sites" in Oulu. The Finnish National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) carried ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/11959.cfm - 24 November 2007

Microsoft to step up its anti-piracy efforts in China
Microsoft has come to an agreement with China's second largest computer manufacturer, Founder, in which more and more new computers will come ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/11728.cfm - 7 November 2007

BSA talks out about piracy on auction sites
The Business Software Alliance (BSA) has announced that in the first six months of 2007 it prevented over 36,000 unauthorized software products ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/11347.cfm - 3 October 2007

WGA bites legitimate customers
Microsoft has blamed a server error for a glitch in its Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) program that incorrectly reported many legitimate installations ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/10877.cfm - 27 August 2007

$2 billion software piracy ring broken up in China
The FBI and China's Public Security Bureau have led an investigation that has led to the discovery and disbandment of a $2 billion global software ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/10474.cfm - 24 July 2007

BSA to give up to $1 million in rewards for piracy snitches
This morning, the Business Software Alliance (BSA) announced that you can be in for a hefty reward if you were to report a business or individual ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/10236.cfm - 2 July 2007

BSA study says illegal downloading down among youths
According to the results of nationwide survey released by the Business Software Alliance (BSA), illegal downloading of copyrighted works by ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/9819.cfm - 23 May 2007

BSA and MIPI welcome funding to fight IP crime in Australia
A pledge from the Australian federal government to provide $12.4 million over two years to to tackle the problem of intellectual property (IP) ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/9730.cfm - 17 May 2007

BSA reports piracy is on the rise
An IDC study commissioned by the Business Software Alliance (BSA) reported on Tuesday that the rate of piracy globally has remained fairly stable, ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/9705.cfm - 15 May 2007

BSA cracks down on auction pirates
The Business Software Alliance (BSA), which represents and protects the copyrights of many of the major software companies, has halted five ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/8996.cfm - 16 March 2007

Canadian P2P users receive thousands of email notices
Users of peer-to-peer file sharing utilities in Canada have been receiving emails if they are found to be sharing copyrighted content. This ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/8707.cfm - 18 February 2007

Romanian President says piracy helped his country
During Bill Gates' tour to promote the recently launched Windows Vista operating system, Romanian President Traian Basescu reportedly told Gates ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/8571.cfm - 1 February 2007

Pirate gets three year jail sentence
An unnamed software pirate has been handed a jail sentence for selling counterfeit Microsoft products. The 42 year old Turkish man was described ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/8536.cfm - 30 January 2007

Australian draft report casts doubt on piracy stats
A draft government report prepared by the Australian Institute of Criminology has lashed out at the music and software sectors for their piracy ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/8110.cfm - 10 November 2006

BSAA doubles reward to stop software pirates
The Business Software Association of Australia (BSAA), the Australian software industry's "pirate hunters" have doubled the reward on offer ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/7988.cfm - 4 October 2006

Study shows effects of software piracy reduction on UK and world economies
According to a study commissioned by the Business Software Alliance (BSA) a 10% reduction of software piracy would result in 34,000 new jobs, ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/7136.cfm - 8 December 2005

Study: European downloaders pay double tax on music
According to a study, some European music downloaders are paying usage rights on their copy protected files multiple times due to outdated private ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/6946.cfm - 14 October 2005

Software piracy figures keep on rising
Software piracy figures continue to jump to new heights as the business of software counterfeiting remains a multi-million dollar problem for ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/6897.cfm - 5 October 2005

Nintendo DS piracy protection
The new Nintendo DS is set to be released soon in Europe and will feature some very sophisticated anti-piracy protection, especially protecting ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/6061.cfm - 7 February 2005

Year 2004 -- evolution, not revolution
The year 2004 is coming to its end and its time to take a quick look at the major events in the digital multimedia world and also to our own ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/5919.cfm - 1 January 2005

P2P services under widescale legal attack?
As you all have read or noticed by now; some of the biggest P2P sites in existence have been shut down. The most targeted sites have been BitTorrent ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/5885.cfm - 17 December 2004

Finnish BitTorrent link site busted
Finnish authorities have today seized the computers of the administrators of Finnish site Finreactor which was one of the largest sites in Finland ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/5878.cfm - 14 December 2004

Downhill Battle takes aim at anti-p2p school curriculums
DownhillHillBattle.org announced two new project sites in the passed few days. The first site is aimed at kids and students in response to the ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/5795.cfm - 17 November 2004

700 software piracy probes being persued by BSA
The Business Software Alliance has over 700 active investigations into software piracy in the United States, according to Robert M. Kruger, ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/5631.cfm - 24 September 2004

New version of FFDSHOW released
A new version of the popular open source audio/video decoder, FFDSHOW, has been updated. As usual, the changelog is rather massive and includes ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/5470.cfm - 6 August 2004

Latest BSA piracy figures: 36%
The Business Software Alliance announced today their latest estimation of usage of illegally copied software. According to BSA, globally 36% ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/5398.cfm - 8 July 2004

European campaign against software patents
Scientists and concerned web users all over the European Union have started rallying against the proposed software patent directive that is ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/4405.cfm - 26 August 2003

BSA sniffs at Asian sites
Business Software Alliance has launched an anti-piracy campaigns which is targeted towards the Asia-Pacific region. According to the source ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/4141.cfm - 5 June 2003

Mississippi tops as the no. 1 piracy state
According a study published by Business Software Alliance, Mississippi has the worst record of American states in software piracy in business. ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/3513.cfm - 1 November 2002

BSA in Euro piracy crack-down
The Business Software Alliance (BSA) is tocrack-down on even more businesses using illegal software. The BSA's decision to get tough with ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/3046.cfm - 18 June 2002

Change from Internet to Freenet
London programmer Ian Clarke and rapidly growing bunch of volunteers are working to develop a way to change Internet into "Freenet", a network ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/1137.cfm - 26 April 2000