Big vendors such as Microsoft and IBM say that they’re collectively losing billions of dollars a year in software sales because of piracy, and are working together and with government to address the ...

A 26-year-old California man who pleaded guilty last December to criminal copyright infringement charges was sentenced today to 87 months in federal prison — the longest U.S. sentence ever for ...

A 31-year-old Pennsylvania man who allegedly ran a home-based online business selling pirated copies of software, music and movies was arrested today following an undercover operation by the Motion ...

After a few days of fallout with World of Warcraft guild OnlyFangs, Pirate Software says that he's done streaming Hardcore. OnlyFangs is a World of Warcraft guild full of streamers that regrouped for ...

A U.S. judge on Friday sentenced the owner and operator of iBackups.net to 87 months in prison, the longest sentence ever given for software piracy, according to a software trade group. Nathan ...

Piracy is a growing concern for all software providers, especially those of us with complex and specialized software, such as chip design automation software that is expensive to develop and maintain.

In an ironic twist, Rockstar Games reportedly uses pirated software cracks to remove its DRM from some games they sell on Steam. Rockstar Games and its parent company, Take Two, are known for taking a ...

Moreover, the software industry association sees troubling signs developing with the use of peer-to-peer techniques that could worsen the situation. In reporting figures for 2003, the BSA said the ...

Startup V.i. Laboratories' CodeArmor Intelligence collects data on the unauthorized use of software and stealthily sends it back to the software's maker Most anti-piracy solutions try to prevent ...