Links Sort by: Hits | AlphabeticalPiracy information from Microsoft
http://www.microsoft.com/Piracy/
Pirated software hurts everyone—from software developers to retail store owners, and ultimately to all software users. Furthermore, the illegal duplication and distribution of software has a significant impact on the economy.
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Software piracy 'seen as normal'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4122624.stm
Campaigns to persuade people to stop downloading pirated games or software from the internet are not working, a report suggests. Two UK university researchers found that people did not see downloading pirated material as theft.
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The "Software Piracy" Controversy
http://www.bellevuelinux.org/software_piracy.html
Software piracy is a term that is frequently used to describe the copying or use of computer software in violation of its license (commonly referred to as an end user licensing agreement or EULA). Interestingly, not only the concept, but also the term itself, is highly controversial.
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The European Software Piracy: An Empirical Application
http://www.serci.org/2002/Rodriguez.pdf
This paper provides empirical evidence on the link between piracy and software protection, taking piracy determinants in cross–country regressions as basic
reference.
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THE IMPACT OF SOFTWARE PIRACY AND LICENSE MISUSE ON THE CHANNEL
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/events/wwpc/docs/SoftwarePiracyWP.pdf
The losses to software vendors from piracy and license misuse are well documented in the annual Business Software Alliance (BSA) study of global PC software piracy. What has never been documented is the effect they have on all the other companies in the software ecosystems resellers, VARs, system integrators, service firms, and other ISVs. This study does just that, building on IDC projects studying the benefits of lowering piracy for local economies and on the impact of the Microsoft ecosystem on those same economies.
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