Computer users in China are upset at Microsoft for recent measures taken to curb piracy in the country. From the New York Times: The furor stemmed from an update to Windows XP Professional that Microsoft began offering users in China last week. The new version of WGA’s Notifications, the software that provides the messages and other on-screen [...]

Microsoft has cut the price of its 2007 Office Suite in China for the next several weeks in an attempt to convert pirated users into legitimate consumers. From Reuters: Microsoft Corp has cut the selling price in China of one of its software products by over 70 percent to counter rampant piracy. It is the first special offer [...]

An increase in software piracy could cost Microsoft in China this year, according to a new report.  From Bloomberg News: Microsoft Corp.’s profit growth may be stunted this year by a resurgence of software piracy in China, the second-biggest personal-computer market after the U.S. More than 8 out of 10 pieces of software in use are copied illegally in China, [...]

The Business Software Association (BSA) released a new study claiming that eight states in the United States are responsible for 52 percent of total piracy losses in the country. From the press release by the BSA: The national average for software piracy in 2007 was 20%, meaning that one in five pieces of PC software in use [...]

The Los Angeles Times has an article on a Syrian Pirate Hacker who would charge $2 to break the security code for Grand Theft Auto IV. From the LA Times: Small, thin and pale, with a reddish beard, Abdul-Rahman Mahaini estimates that he has stolen millions of dollars’ worth of software, hacking his way into the most [...]

Software companies lost $47.809 Billion to piracy in 2007. Source: Fifth Annual BSA And IDC Global Software Piracy Study, May 2008.

Source: Associated Press, “Piracy Fines to Increase in Vietnam,” International Herald Tribune, November 8, 2006.

Source: Andy McCue, “Microsoft launches ‘terrorist-fuelling’ piracy crackdown,” Silicon.com, February 16, 2007, (accessed: May 1, 2007).

Between July 2006 to April 2007, more than 8,300 pieces of pirated Microsoft software were found on British business computers. Source: Andy McCue, “One-third of businesses run fake Microsoft software,” Silicon.com, April 26, 2007,(accessed: May 1, 2007).

55 business were raided by Malaysian authorities in 2007 for using pirated software, the highest ever number of raids conducted. A total of RM 4.5 million ($138 Million) of pirated software and equipment were seized during those raids. Source: “Bumper year for antipiracy raiders,” The Star, December 25, 2007,(accessed: January 14, 2008).