Piracy is an illegally copying of protected content that infringes on the owner's copyright, costing them a potential sale.

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 ...

Software piracy grew in the Asia-Pacific region last year but leveled off in most regions of the world, according to a new survey by an industry trade group. The Global Software Piracy Study (download ...

The results from the Business Software Alliance’s fifth-annual study on global software piracy revealed some statistics that would put a smile on any software company executive’s face: Of the 108 ...

And it's regarding a topic about which most people have a very strong opinion: software piracy. Dina's comments have been kicking around in my head for weeks for random processing, but I felt ...

A 10-point drop in the estimated 35 percent global software piracy rate would create 2.4 million jobs and $400 billion in economic growth over four years, according to a study released by a software ...

The rate of global software piracy declined 10 percent in the past eight years, but there was only a modest 1 percent reduction from 2001 until now with a sharp increase in what piracy costs companies ...

As some of you know, I'm very much into Linux and Linux is very much into GPL, though GPL software is available for any platform- and is actually picking up some following in the Windows world as well ...

Enforcement efforts by software-makers have resulted in 44 settlements with American companies in 2002. A report being released Monday by the Business Software Alliance, which includes companies such ...

Do GDP and job growth rise and fall with the prevalence of illegal software? Does less of it mean more job growth? We look at the strengths and weaknesses of a global report on the question. BSA ...