Despite increasingly stringent measures and the growing popularity of subscription-based packages, one-third (31%) of software makers now say piracy is a major source of revenue leakage.

Revenera, a leader in both licensing and compliance, is uniquely positioned to help software producers close the loop – by detecting and responding to piracy, overuse, and misuse through programmatic ...

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 ...

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 ...

Eastern Europe led the world in software piracy last year, followed closely by the Asia-Pacific region, the only area to see a rise in software copyright infringement, according to a new survey ...

Seven lawsuits in California, Maryland, New York, Texas and Virginia filed against nine individuals claim they illegally acquired the software through Microsoft Action Pack Subscriptions (MAPS), a ...

The study found that for every $1 reduction in software piracy, the Microsoft ecosystem, including channel partners, gained $4.37 in new revenue and $1.13 in lower costs for a total gain of $5.50, ...

As the world moves toward an information based economy, one of the biggest and most expensive threats is software piracy. According to The Software Publishers Association, pirated software costs the ...

Software piracy was at its peak in the early 2000s, threatening revenue streams and intellectual property rights for software ...

A new study carried out by the Business Software Alliance and IDC Global Software has concluded that 36 per cent of all software used around the world in 2003 was pirated - representing some $29 ...

In the 2020s we’re used to software being readily accessible, and often free, whether as-in-beer or as-in-speech. This situation is a surprisingly new one, and in an earlier era of consumer software ...

While the overall software piracy rate worldwide remained at 35% last year — the same as in 2004 — the piracy rate in 51 of the 97 countries surveyed declined, according to a new study done jointly by ...