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Unfair Competition Laws and Software Piracy
The use of unfair competition laws to address the use of pirated software is gaining momentum. Businesses that pay for licensed software are at a disadvantage when their competitors use that same...
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BSA CEO Steps Down, Microsoft and Adobe Sue Australian Radio Stations, a Look...
Welcome back to V.i. Labs’ weekly update on software piracy and copyright infringement. In this edition: BSA CEO Robert Holleyman steps down, Microsoft and Adobe sue Aussie radio stations, a look back...
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Chief Scientist for US Defense Contractor Sentenced for Piracy, Spain Gets...
Welcome back to V.i. Labs’ weekly update on software piracy and copyright infringement. In this edition: a chief scientist for a US defense contractor pleads guilty and is sentenced for software...
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Unfair Competition Law an Opportunity for India, Snitch Line Leads to $106k...
Welcome back to V.i. Labs’ weekly update on software piracy and copyright infringement. In this edition: Unfair Competition Law may create an opportunity for India and “snitch lines” get a bad rap....
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Washington State’s Unfair Competition Law, Ex-employees Come Forward in...
Welcome back to V.i. Labs’ weekly update on software piracy and copyright infringement. In this edition: more news on the Unfair Competition Law front and an update on the Super Radio Network software...
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Pirate Bay Turned Away in Greenland, One-Third of UK SMBs Knowingly Use...
Welcome back to V.i. Labs’ weekly update on software piracy and copyright infringement. In this edition: the Pirate Bay is turned away in Greenland and a BSA survey show one-third of UK SMBs knowingly...
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Frustrated Finish in Finland; AllData Pirate Distributor Avoids Jail – Week...
Welcome back to V.i. Labs’ weekly update on software piracy and copyright infringement. In this edition: a Finnish topsite trial results in suspended sentences and reduced damages, and a distributor of...
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Irony Escapes Game Pirates; Garment Manufacturer Caught Using Pirated...
Welcome back to V.i. Labs’ weekly update on software piracy and copyright infringement. In this edition: Game Dev Tycoon pirates bemoan piracy but miss the point, and a Sri Lankan garment manufacturer...
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Washington State’s Unfair Competition Law, Ex-employees Come Forward in...
Welcome back to V.i. Labs’ weekly update on software piracy and copyright infringement. In this edition: more news on the Unfair Competition Law front and an update on the Super Radio Network software...
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Pirate Bay Turned Away in Greenland, One-Third of UK SMBs Knowingly Use...
Welcome back to V.i. Labs’ weekly update on software piracy and copyright infringement. In this edition: the Pirate Bay is turned away in Greenland and a BSA survey show one-third of UK SMBs knowingly...
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Frustrated Finish in Finland; AllData Pirate Distributor Avoids Jail – Week...
Welcome back to V.i. Labs’ weekly update on software piracy and copyright infringement. In this edition: a Finnish topsite trial results in suspended sentences and reduced damages, and a distributor of...
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Irony Escapes Game Pirates; Garment Manufacturer Caught Using Pirated...
Welcome back to V.i. Labs’ weekly update on software piracy and copyright infringement. In this edition: Game Dev Tycoon pirates bemoan piracy but miss the point, and a Sri Lankan garment manufacturer...
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Proxies Providing Path to Piracy; Meet the Masters and Mingle – Week in...
Welcome back to V.i. Labs’ weekly update on software piracy and copyright infringement. In this edition: proxy services circumventing ISP blocks against The Pirate Bay, and an invitation to meet...
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BSA Study: Licensed Software Contributes 3x More to National Economies than...
Did you attend our software license compliance panel in Waltham last week? If so, you may recall Peter Beruk from the BSA mentioning that they were going to be releasing a study this week. The study,...
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Adobe Photoshop Creative Cloud Has Been Pirated. Why is Everyone Surprised?
I wish I could say that I was surprised, but I’m not. I’m not surprised that Adobe’s new Creative Cloud version of Photoshop has been pirated, and I’m not surprised by the “told you so” reactions when...
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DMCA Takedown Notices – A Ride on the Hamster Wheel?
Back in November 2010, the New York Times published a fascinating story on Microsoft’s war on piracy. It discussed Microsoft’s “link-removal machine” – an artificial intelligence system that “scans...
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What is Unpaid Software?
According to the BSA’s ninth annual Global Software Piracy Study, the commercial value of software theft rose to $63 billion dollars. As of October 2013, V.i. Labs’ customer base alone has identified...
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More on Making Software Piracy a Revenue Source
Craig Vodnik, co-founder and VP Operations at Cleverbridge, published a fantastic article yesterday titled, “How to Make Software Piracy a Revenue Source.” It was great to see another voice in our...
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[Video] Generate License Revenue from Unpaid Software
Are you responsible for driving revenue at a software company? This short video will show you how V.i. Labs’ proven solution helps you to recover the license revenue you lose due to unpaid software...
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Apptricity and the Army: Lessons in Unpaid Software
Regular readers of this blog have likely heard that the U.S. government is paying logistics software vendor Apptricity $50 million to settle a case involving unpaid software. While most news headlines...
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