piracy

Arxan Technologies, a leading provider of application hardening solutions designed to protect software applications from tampering, unauthorized access, piracy and malware insertion, today announced a major ...

I’m willing to bet a good few of those reading are using pirated software, and, until I switched to Linux last year, I was one of those few.

Who’s going to keep tabs on you closely enough to send the police kicking down your front door over Microsoft Office 2007?

Still, your actions do more damage than you realize.

Switch to Linux/Open Source/Freewares and Report Piracy Online

Ars Technica: "750,000 and $200 to $250 billion. The first is the number of U.S. jobs supposedly lost to intellectual property theft; the second is the annual dollar cost of IP infringement to the U.S. economy."

Boycott Novell: "Only last year, Microsoft's PR icon had an important message to bear and to share: It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not."

Boycott Novell: "Cherish the mercy of Microsoft. It prefers not to sue poor people."

Why can’t Microsoft simply permit the Kenyan people to have freedom with Free(dom) software?

Linux.com: "Piracy notwithstanding, there are some good, valid reasons for making a backup of a DVD. K9Copy, a utility for copying DVDs, receives high marks in many forums, so I took it for a spin -- and found out its reputation is deserved."

Intruder's aCube software was extremely vulnerable to piracy by clients who had only leased the software for a specific term or who had not bought the entire system.

Brendan Scott's Weblog "A variant of this argument is that the downloads expose the kids to evil pornographers. Therefore piracy is bad and the government should pass laws to stop it."