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• YouTube unveils anti-piracy protection
SAN BRUNO, Calif. - Online video leader YouTube on Monday rolled out long-awaited technology to automatically remove copyrighted clips, hoping to placate movie and television studios fed up with the Web site's persistent piracy problems. The ...
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ALL OTHER INQUIRIES, SUCH AS REQUESTS FOR TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE, REPORTS OF EMAIL ABUSE, AND PIRACY REPORTS, WILL NOT RECEIVE A RESPONSE THROUGH THIS PROCESS. Written notification must be submitted to the following Designated Agent: Service Provider(s ...
• Satellite TV hackers nabbed by FBI
Federal authorities announced Tuesday they had made sweeping arrests in a year-long undercover investigation of the satellite-TV piracy underground. Ten suspects have already pleaded guilty to a variety of federal charges, including one who admitted ...
• Piracy crackdown targets small businesses - Security- msnbc.com
Michael Gaertner worried he could lose his company. A group called the Business Software Alliance was claiming that his 10-person architectural firm was using unlicensed software.
• Piracy plagues hotly awaited game sequels - Games - msnbc.com
Several highly anticipated games, such as “Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas” and “Half-Life 2,” have fallen victim to copyright theft.

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» Adobe - What Is Software Piracy? - Website documenting the corporate understanding of software piracy, featuring penalties, implications, and practices.
» Association Européenne pour la Protection des Oeuvres et services Cryptés (AEPOC) - The European Association for the Protection of Encrypted Works and Services, an organization of corporations in the digital television and telecommunications sector. The mission is studying the phenomenon of piracy in relation to encrypted works and services and research into all the legal, operational and technological methods for increasing the security and protection of conditional access systems.
» BSA Anti-Piracy Site -- Software Piracy - Nopiracy.com is a site by the BSA (an alliance between many software megacorps to attack people who copy software) that argues against "piracy" and encourages turning people in.
» Microsoft - How Piracy Affects You - Argues that piracy is wrong, claims it costs consumers money.
» Quality Brands Protections Committee - Industry lobby promoting intellectual property rights in China.
» SIIA Anti-Piracy - Among information, news, issues on copyright, policies and initiatives, this side also provides the possibility to report piracy.
» Software piracy - Protection of intellectual property - Information on piracy as well as tips on how to protect yourself against it.
» Software Piracy Sails Despite Rough Seas Ahead - An article that discusses the costs of software piracy, especially in the animation industry.
» Software Piracy: What You Should Know - Bentley Systems attacks software "piracy".


» Wired News - Focus on Software Piracy Problem - Article by Katie Dean discussing the implications and myths of software piracy. (April 9, 2003)
» PC World - Did Microsoft Flirt With Piracy? - Article by Kim Zetter documenting Microsoft's conviction of piracy charges in France for illegal use of another company's source code. (May 9, 2002)
» The Register - Stealth Plan Puts Copy Protection Into Every Hard Drive - Hastening a rapid demise for the free copying of digital media, the next generation of hard disks is likely to come with copyright protection countermeasures built in. (December 20, 2000)