BEIJING--When Bill Gates, the Microsoft chairman, played host to President Hu Jintao of China in Seattle last month, he learned that he had a customer at the apex of the world's biggest market. In a ...

A study by three Korean academics suggests that although the direct effect of media consumption through BitTorrent to TV viewership is negative, the indirect effect that mediates Internet buzz is ...

Bottom line: The study demonstrates the complex psychology behind anti-piracy messaging. While risks and legal consequences may deter some groups, threatening tactics can seriously backfire for others ...

Losses to the worldwide software industry resulting from the use of unlicensed software amounted to $10.97 billion in 2001, down from $11.75 billion in 2000, according to a report released today by ...

BEIJING--"DVDs? CDs? Games? Porn? What you want?" hawkers in Beijing's Zhongguancun neighborhood whisper to potential customers. Asked for computer software, one scurries off to check his cache, kept ...

Recent raids conducted in Kuwait confiscate counterfeit and pirated Microsoft software Kuwait, March 30, 2011 - Microsoft Gulf announced that the Kuwait Ministry of Commerce and Industry conducted ...

Seeking another weapon in its war on piracy, the movie industry hopes to wow lawmakers today with a study that says the economic impact of illegal DVD and Internet film distribution may be as much as ...

Quoteworthy: I wonder what the effect would be if piracy ended because all software went open source. Would services revenue make up for the loss of license fees? And would developing countries grow ...

PC software piracy was on the upswing in 2008 for the second year in a row, because PC shipments grew fastest in high-piracy countries like China and India, according to a study released Tuesday by ...

The Kuwaiti Ministry of Information has intensified efforts to bring down software piracy rate in the country and has strengthened its association with Business Software Alliance (BSA), the ...

As part of its growing effort to thwart piracy, Microsoft is offering free photo slideshow software to customers who verify that they have a genuine copy of Windows. Microsoft on Wednesday released ...

Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko. Contributor/Getty Images. The government of Belarus has passed a law that permits the use of media and intellectual property, such as computer software, in ...