Software Piracy

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4 Jul 2008

Court order on YouTube user data fans privacy fears NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO - A U.S. judge's order to Google Inc to turn over YouTube user data to Viacom Inc sparked an outcry on Thursday from privacy advocates in the midst of a legal showdown over video piracy. Viacom, owner of movie studio Paramount and MTV Networks, requested the information as part of its $1 billion ...

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 20th Jun 2006 22:29 UTC (New Mobile Computing)

4 Jul 2008

Counterfeiters aren't Microsoft's only opponents in its effort to combat piracy: Some of its customers are against it, too . The company is forging ahead with a program, Windows Genuine Advantage, tied to its free software downloads and updates, that checks whether the Windows installation on a PC is pirated.

OSNews > Thread > "RE: that's an easy one ..." by Celerate (OS News)

4 Jul 2008

It appears that Sony has been putting nasty payloads onto its copy-protected CDs in the form of a rootkit. "Not only had Sony put software on my system that uses techniques commonly used by malware to mask its presence, the software is poorly written and provides no means for uninstall.