China Retail As Piracy Prevention.
2009-08-14 18:11:00 One of the things I love about being a lawyer is what I learn from clients. I recently started working with a company that makes a high end consumer good. In the US, this company sells its products to high end retail outlets, including department stores. It has no retail outlets. This company has been doing more and more of its manufacturing in China and, like so many, it has recently decided the time has come for it to sell its product line in China as well. They have told me that "in order to maintain exclusivity and to prevent piracy," it will be setting up retail stores in China and selling its product only from those stores. That way it will be obvious both to them and to consumers that any of its product that is not in these stores is not the real deal. Now I am sure this is nothing new to many of you (so go ahead and call me out if you wish), but this is actually the first time I have heard of a company going into China retail to protect product integrity. What do...
By: China Law Blog
The On Going Fight Against Piracy
2009-07-29 07:42:00 It’s a Piracy Vs Anti-Piracy War The Jolly Roger raised in an illustration for Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance. Few years ago Microsoft silently released a Tool via ‘Automatic Updates’ to check and notify the Windows user about the genuineness of the Operating System, an attempt to fight against piracy. It indeed created a chaos ... Related posts:‘World’s biggest’ software pirates jailedGuitar Hero: Metallica Dated, Track List Revealed
Security Against Piracy at Sea
2009-07-28 22:48:00 How about installing high pressure water jets on the weather decks in areas leading to manned spaces. It can be connected into the firemain and controlled from the bridge. Cost to install would not be all that great. I got this idea from the saltwater washdown system used on Navy vessels.
Software piracy costs $50 billion a year, according to BSA
2009-05-25 07:07:00 Software piracy costs $50 billion a year, according to BSAA report released Tuesday claims that 20 percent of PC software within the United States is pirated – and that that rate is still the lowest in the world.The sixth revision of a joint study between the Business Software Alliance and IDC found that that Armenia, Bangladesh, Georgia, and Zimbabwe are the countries with the highest amounts of piracy, topping 90 percent. Worldwide, the rate of software piracy rose from 38 percent to 41 percent, because of the increase of Internet users in high-piracy locations such as China and India, the report found. Software piracy within the U.S., meanwhile, has remained flat. Setting the effects of exchange rates aside, the report found that the estimated losses from software piracy grew by 5 percent to $50.2 billion. In 2005, however, The Economist published a critique of the BSA/IDC methodology, concluding that the study’s results were exaggerated. BSA and IDC representatives were not...
Piracy off the coast of Somalia
2009-04-16 18:10:00 Toxic dumping and illegal fishing off the coast of Somalia…the real root of the problem. From Democracy Now: President Obama vowed an international crackdown to halt piracy off the coast of Somalia Monday soon after the freeing of US cargo ship captain Richard Phillips, who had been held hostage by Somali pirates since last Wednesday. While the ...
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Piet Pompies wrote a new blog post: No, David Pogue, Ebook Piracy is Not a
2009-02-16 11:31:00 Piet Pompies wrote a new blog post: No, David Pogue, Ebook Piracy is Not a Given Apple made legitimate purchases of music both easy and inexpensive via the iTunes Store, and anyone who was on the fence about whether it was acceptable to share music suddenly had a viable alternative. Providing a legitimate purchase path for electronic versions not only generates revenue, but also reduces illicit copying. Closer to ...
By: BackBeat
WTO China Piracy Ruling: It Ain't Worth A Thing....
2009-01-30 07:21:00 Forbes Magazine (which, BTW, does a consistently excellent job in covering China) has a new and interesting article out, entitled, "U.S. Talks Up WTO Piracy Ruling, But It's All Wind" and subtitled, "Washington claims that the trade body took its side in a suit against China, yet the decision will not halt intellectual property theft." The article talks about how the United States government has been playing up its victory on two out of its three claims, but since it lost the one really important one, its victory claim is little more than spin control. To grossly oversimplify, the WTO ruled that China's criminal IP laws are not inconsistent with China's WTO obligations. China Law Blog's own Steve Dickinson is extensively quoted downplaying the U.S. "victory": The U.S. claim was trivial and hyper technical. They won on the hyper technical issue. The only serious issue was the criminal sanctions issue, and they lost on that one. So what this means is exactly nothing," sai...
By: China Law Blog
dost and piracy
2009-01-15 20:19:00 dati may nabasa ako sa manila times na nagsasabi na ginawa ang bayanihan linux para mabawasan ang piracy.. pero napadaan ako sa isang website ng DOST at akalain mo gumagamit din pala sila ng pirated softwares.. dapat nga sila yung parang role model natin na gumamit tayo ng free/legal softwares! pero hindi e.. e halos lahat naman tayo dito sa pinas gumagamit ng pirated.. aminin na natin.. magastos bumili ng os, softwares, utilities etc at madali ma-download lahat nyan sa bittorrent.. kung hindi man techie merong installers na binibenta sa tabi-tabi.. ang masasabi ko lang sana yung BSA ay mag inspect/raid din ng government offices lalo na dyan sa DOST, hindi lang mga private companies (may kickback?).. at yung bayanihan linux.. para sa akin ay waste lang ng budget.. based(fork?) din naman sya sa debian.. edi mag ubuntu nalang (updated pa araw araw.. may mga security fixes pa).. heto screenshots… kung burahin man nila (hugas kamay)..
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China, Somali Piracy, And Minding The Gap.
2008-12-18 08:58:00 I am a big fan of Thomas Barnett who is, perhaps, most famous for dividing countries between core and gap, as explained here by Wikipedia: Barnett has termed the globalized countries the "Functioning Core," or simply "the Core." The other countries are part of the "Non-Integrating Gap," or simply "the Gap." The Gap has been shrinking as globalization has expanded. Since most terrorists seem to come from the Gap, he believes that the American military should focus on building partnerships with "seam states," countries bordering the Gap, to stabilize those regions. Stable states would bring more investment and more connectedness with the outside world, therefore progressively shrinking the Gap. The end result of all of this, if it proves to be successful, would be nothing less than the end of interstate warfare on the planet, and probably a significant reduction in intrastate warfare and other problems like terrorism. I was reminded of these distinctions when I read this post on Chi...
By: China Law Blog
Piracy Map 2008
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AP IMPACT: Security firms join Somali piracy fight
2008-10-27 04:56:00 AP IMPACT: Security firms join Somali piracy fight NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Blackwater Worldwide and other private security firms - some with a reputation for being quick on the trigger in Iraq - are joining the battle against pirates plaguing one of the world’s most important shipping lanes off the coast of Somalia. The growing interest among ...
By: TexasFred's
Microsoft Announces Anti-Piracy Day
2008-10-21 15:17:00 Today Microsoft is making an effort to bring attention to the steps it has taken to reduce piracy of its software by announcing “anti-piracy day”. Microsoft has created an interactive map that highlights the anti-piracy efforts of 49 different countries using interactive red dots and uses blue dots for comments made by end users duped into ...
Hell freezes over & EA states Piracy isn't always lost Sales
2008-10-01 08:44:00 I brought up the discussion the other day when I mentioned Epic Games smack talking us PC enthusiasts being one in the same as PC game pirates. Piracy does not always equal lost sales. There is... Hi, want more? Visit http://starfeeder.com for more StarCraft 2 news, rumors, videos, contests & more!
NBI raids RP game developer for alleged software piracy
2008-09-09 08:08:00 MANILA, Philippines -- The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) raided the office of Philippine game development company Anino Games Inc. August 22 for alleged software copyright infringement. The raid resulted in the seizure of 36 computers that were installed with alleged illegal copies of several applications from software developer Autodesk Inc. Among the allegedly pirated software that were found were 3D Studio Max 2008, 3D Studio Max 9, AutoDesk Maya 8.5, AutoCAD 2008, AutoDesk Maya 2008 and Combustion 4. A complaint was filed at the NBI's Anti-Fraud and Computer Crimes Division (AFCCD) by AutoDesk, a member of the Business Software Alliance (BSA). The group has been promoting the use of original software and seeking prosecution against alleged copyright violators, BSA said in a statement. Anino, the first commercial game development firm in the Philippines, is a member of the Game Development Association of the Philippines. The group's president, Gabriel Dizon was unavail...
By: IT-AID
Adlabs Awarded Intl. Anti-Piracy Certification - News
2008-09-08 20:30:00 Adlabs is First Facility in Asia to be Awarded International Anti-Piracy Certification by FACT... Read Original story
How to report software piracy in India
2008-08-11 14:19:00 Software piracy is bane to all the software developers in the country and ultimately hurts the reputation of the country on the world stage. in order to establish ourselves as respected, India needs to tighten its laws & enforcement against software piracy. I have always believed that any law enforcement has to be done on a citizen - govt. partnership (see my trafficviolators.com initiative)..
How to report software piracy in India
2008-08-11 14:19:00 Software piracy is bane to all the software developers in the country and ultimately hurts the reputation of the country on the world stage. in order to establish ourselves as respected, India needs to tighten its laws & enforcement against software piracy. I have always believed that any law enforcement has to be done on a citizen - govt. partnership (see my trafficviolators.com initiative)..
India?s position on bio-piracy and TRIPS in WTO talks
2008-06-09 06:28:00 INDIA has insisted that the issue of amending the trade-related intellectual property rights agreement (TRIPS) to check bio-piracy should be made part of the upcoming ?horizontal process? in which senior officials and trade ministers from key countries would meet to agree on the modality texts for liberalising trade in agriculture, industrial goods and other issues.But wait a minute. What is this ?horizontal process??'Horizontal process' is the term given to a process of prior negotiations at Senior Official level in the WTO talks. Prior talks on trade issues at the senior official level, even before the Ministerial level talks commence, is believed to help the Ministerial meets to quickly close the gaps that exist in their positions and give commitments for the trade agreements. This was done at the behest of the Director General Pascal Lamy in April 2008 in the context of agriculture and NAMA (...
By: Discover It
India?s position on bio-piracy and TRIPS in WTO talks
2008-06-09 06:28:00 INDIA has insisted that the issue of amending the trade-related intellectual property rights agreement (TRIPS) to check bio-piracy should be made part of the upcoming ?horizontal process? in which senior officials and trade ministers from key countries would meet to agree on the modality texts for liberalising trade in agriculture, industrial goods and other issues.But wait a minute. What is this ?horizontal process??'Horizontal process' is the term given to a process of prior negotiations at Senior Official level in the WTO talks. Prior talks on trade issues at the senior official level, even before the Ministerial level talks commence, is believed to help the Ministerial meets to quickly close the gaps that exist in their positions and give commitments for the trade agreements. This was done at the behest of the Director General Pascal Lamy in April 2008 in the context of agriculture and NAMA (...
By: Discover It
Theft in print
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Oregon Case Reveals The Tie Between Software Piracy And Identity Theft
2008-06-01 22:02:00 (Photo courtesy of naveenium at Flickr) Software Piracy is a multi-billion dollar issue. Whether it’s hawked in a spam e-mail, a flea market or on a auction site — it might not work as well as advertised — and could even lead to identity theft. You never know what might be installed in pirated software. The person ...
Revision3 Denial Of Service Attack Traced To Anti-Piracy Company
2008-05-30 10:00:00 Revision3 Denial Of Service Attack Traced To Anti-Piracy CompanyCompany CEO Jim Louderback says the FBI is investigating, and he is critical of MediaDefender's vigilante approach to fighting copyright piracy.http://www.informationwe-ek.com/new...
Revision3 blames anti-piracy firm for DOS attack
2008-05-29 18:55:00 Revision3 blames anti-piracy firm for DOS attackWeb TV network Revision3 says MediaDefender had been misusing its network for months and when access was shut down the traffic backed up, causing a denial of service attack that shut down Revisio...
UFO technology to detect film piracy
2008-05-28 00:00:00 Video piracy is the biggest threat to the film business all over the world. To stop this, film producers and anti-piracy agents have begun using the UFO technology that can detect the date, time and location from where the film was pirated.
USD 2 bn, Indian Software Piracy?
2008-05-19 10:22:00 The Indian software industry lost about 2 billion dollars of revenue this year due to use of pirated softwares. Piracy of software on personal 2 Vote(s)
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Software Piracy Mixed Bag
2008-05-16 17:57:00 Although PC software piracy declined in many countries in 2007, piracy increased in fast-growing PC markets, resulting in an overall rise of piracy from 35% to 38%, and dollar losses that increased by $8 billion to nearly $48 billion. The annual study was conducted by IDC and released by the Business Software Alliance (BSA). SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Software Piracy Mixed Bag", url: "http://www.devtopics.com/softw-are-piracy-mixed-bag/" });
Crytek and Epic lost millions because of piracy and are now switching game
2008-05-09 08:48:00 Cevat Yerly, co-founder and CEO of Crytek, the developer behind Crysis was recently interviewed and touched on the PC gaming piracy issue. To quote: “We are suffering currently from the huge piracy that is encompassing Crysis. We seem to lead the charts in piracy by a large margin, a chart leading that is not desirable. ...
NY Attorney Gen. Cuomo Thinks He Can Fight Piracy...
2008-05-08 00:00:00 In a stroke of mass arrogance, NY Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced a newfound conviction to crack down on the piracy trend that "his studies" show find half of their origins in NY cinemas. Supposedly half of the bootleg copies of films out there originate in NY cinemas. Yeah, maybe
By: JustPressPlay
Hacker Kept On NDS Payroll After Accused Of Piracy
2008-05-07 18:24:00 Hacker Kept On NDS Payroll After Accused Of PiracyA high-ranking News Corp. official testified Tuesday that he kept two hackers on the payroll for years after one of them was accused of infiltrating the security system of rival satellite telev...
New York introduces anti-piracy bill
2008-05-05 03:00:00 New York State wants to shake its status as the nation's film piracy capital and set an example for the rest of the country.
Internet Gangstas Don?t Appreciate Software Piracy, Either!
2008-05-02 15:54:00 Crimeware salesmen, like most e-commerce types, take a dim view when their creations are knocked-off (pirated). To protect themselves, they warn their customers (Internet criminal types) that if their products are counterfeited, they can and will be reported to the anti-virus companies. Specifically, the verbiage used as reported on the Symantec blog is, “the binary code ...
Increased piracy hurt Microsoft's quarter
2008-04-24 23:40:00 Increased piracy hurt Microsoft's quarterThe software maker, which had been making gains in the number of unlicensed PCs, saw that trend reverse in the March quarter, a Microsoft executive tells CNET News.com. http-://www.news.com/8301-13860_...-
Hollywood, Bollywood seek to stamp out piracy together
2008-04-24 08:11:00 The American entertainment industry wants to join hands with India to eliminate counterfeiting and piracy that costs Bollywood an estimated loss of $4 billion and 800,000 direct jobs each year. Leading entertainment companies from Hollywood and Bollywood came together at an India super-session show organised by the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) of America in Las Vegas, Nevada. "Now that we've quantified the losses, we're working with government and industry to eliminate counterfeiting and piracy at the source," said Greg Kalbaugh, director and counsel at US India Business Council (USIBC), an advocacy group seeking to advance India-US commercial ties. "The first step is supporting India's adoption of sensible legislation which regulates the production of optical discs. That will have an immediate impact on the rates of counterfeiting and piracy," he said. "The Indian entertainment industry is growing at a combined annual rate of over 18 percen...
Jackie Chan Combats Piracy in China
2008-04-24 00:00:00 When it's time to fight movie piracy in China, Hollywood studios turn to Jackie Chan to spread the word. Variety reports that the MPA (that's the international counterpart of the MPAA) erected a giant billboard of Chan in Beijing's Silk Market district with a very direct message: "Protect th
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NBC exec criticises iTunes pricing, anti-piracy security
2008-04-18 09:43:00 When NBC started making conciliatory gestures toward Apple back in January it looked as thought the network’s TV shows might soon be back on iTunes. Of course, that hasn’t happened, and the two companies are still arguing over how media is priced and whether Apple is using, as many analysts suspect, iTunes as a loss-leader to pull in new iPod buyers. Now NBC’s chief digital officer, George Kliavkoff, has cranked the pressure up a notch, with the suggestion that current anti-piracy solutions aren’t secure enough to protect his company’s content. “If you look at studies about MP3 players, especially leading MP3 players and what portion of that content is pirated, and think about how that content gets onto that device, it has to go through a gatekeeping piece of software, which would be a convenient place to put some antipiracy measures. One of the big issues for NBC is piracy. We are financially harmed every day by piracy. It results in us ...
NBC exec criticises iTunes pricing, anti-piracy security
2008-04-18 00:00:00 When NBC started making conciliatory gestures toward Apple back in January it looked as thought the network?s TV shows might soon be back on iTunes. Of course, that hasn?t happened, and the two companies are still arguing over how media is priced and whether Apple is using, as many analysts suspect, ...
NBC Wants Anti-Piracy, Pricing From Apple
2008-04-16 23:37:00 After an acrimonious and public split from Apple last year, NBC says it wants to put its TV content back on iTunes but the peacock wants anti-piracy measures and flexibility over pricing first. Speaking at the ad:tech conference in San Francisco, NBC
By: mini wisdom
Nigeria overtakes Indonesia in piracy
2008-04-16 10:25:00 Pirate attacks rose worldwide in the first quarter of the year, with Nigeria overtaking Indonesia as the country worst plagued by sea bandits, a global maritime watchdog said Wednesday.Seafarers suffered 49 attacks between January and March around the world, up 20 percent from the 41 in the same period last year, the International Maritime Bureau said in a report by its piracy reporting center in Malaysia.Nigeria ranked as the No. 1 hotspot amid a lack of effective law enforcement, with its 10 reported attacks ? mostly off its main city of Lagos ? accounting for one-fifth of the global total, the London-based bureau said.Indonesian waters have long been the world's most afflicted by pirates, but the number of attacks in the first quarter fell from nine last year to four in 2008, the report said."For the first time in the last decade ... Indonesia is no longer ranked with the highest number of reported incidents," the bureau said. "The Indonesia navy and police should be commended f...
Vista SP1 Upgrade Hack Is Piracy - And illegal
2008-04-16 01:39:00 Eric Ligman, Microsoft US Senior Manager Small Business Community Engagement, has come out guns blazing with sarcasm following reports of a Windows Vista Service Pack 1 loophole which permits end users to perform clean installations of the operating system instead of upgrades. The workaround is nothing new and represents an item of novelty just ...
By: CTF Blog
Europe rejects anti-piracy plans
2008-04-11 11:54:00 Europe rejects anti-piracy plansPersistent file-sharers should not be thrown off the net, say European politicians.http://news.bbc.co.-uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/technology/734-2135.stm
[Interesting] Scrambling for Scrabulous: Is it piracy or in the public doma
2008-04-09 23:11:00 Forbes
Akshay's anti piracy message in TASHAN - News
2008-04-08 01:00:00 While YRF is being cautious in letting the plot of TASHAN known to the audience, the production house is also keeping things in control…... Read Original story
Australian Police Caught Pirating Movies
2008-04-07 23:25:00 Source: Torrentfreak A recent audit of computer systems belonging to the South Australia Police has found that hundreds are being used to ?share? films. In a move smacking of hypocrisy though, officers involved will not be charged. According to The Australian, during an audit of computer systems by the South Australian police force?s IT branch, police computers belonging to hundreds of police officers were found to contain movies. The origin of these movies is not clear, but it is probable that they?ve been downloaded via p2p at some point, either on these systems, or on the personal systems of officers and transferred over. Senior officials of the SA police force have been made aware of the findings, including its commissioner Mel Hyde. However, police sources have told press that there will not be any investigation into this, citing the large numbers of police officers involved. The Australian Federation against Copyright Theft (AFACT) has said it will write to the comm...
Karma! Sony BMG busted for software piracy in France
2008-04-02 11:12:00 From gizmodo: “Ouch, that payback, it can be a bitch — Sony BMG, distributors of rootkit-installing CDs and litigious foe of P2P users worldwide, has just been busted in France for using pirated software on its servers. And it gets even worse: Windows admin tool developer PointDev says a Sony BMG was caught when an IT ...
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Antigua threatens to OK piracy if gambling dispute is ignored
2008-03-31 08:33:00 As reported by Variety: “The government of Antigua is likely to abrogate intellectual property treaties with the U.S. by the end of March and authorize wholesale copying of American movies, music and other ’soft targets’ if the Bush administration fails to respond to proposals for settling a trade dispute between the two counties, according to ...
Welcome to the Nightmare World of Open Piracy - Wired News
2008-03-22 16:21:00 Welcome to the Nightmare World of Open PiracyWired News - 1 hour agoBy Bruce Sterling March 22, 2008 | 10:18:15 AM (((You know, if we're all "pirates," every one of us, everywhere, what are we gonna call ourselves? ...
New Technology ending Hardware Piracy?
2008-03-16 13:53:00 I just read an interesting article on a new hardware technology that ? the patent owner hope ? would end piracy on Integrated Circuits. Obviously, piracy s not only a software problem?? New Tech Fights Chip Piracy With Virtual Lock and Key Roger P.S: Pretty bad is the typo in the first paragraph: A new technology unveiled Wednesday aims to prevent hardware privacy by protecting microchips with the virtual equivalent of an embedded "lock" that can be opened only by the patent owner. Are they use they mean Privacy and not Piracy J????
New technique to stamp out microchip piracy, save billions
2008-03-12 10:49:00 A new technique developed by Rice University will block piracy of microchips, something that causes billions of dollars in losses to chipmakers every year.
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Why Panasonic?s Divx Compatible Blu-Ray Player maybe the new key to PIRACY?
2008-03-06 18:54:00 Panasonic has Launched DMP-BD30EG/EE a DivX compatible Blu-Ray player. It is the first of its kind standalone Blu-Ray player which supports DivX. Playstation 3 users already had the option to play DivX on there Blu-Ray players. This is a very big step by Panasonic but is it a new door for Piracy?? First some Jargon Buster ... |
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