software piracy

Shanghai Daily reports:
China saw a 53-percent increase in the number of firms using copyrighted software, bringing the total since new laws came into action in April 2006, to 2,300.
The figure was released by the National Copyright Administration over the Spring Festival period, and highlighted an increase from 1,500 in December 2007 to 2,300 by the [...]
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Marbridge Daily reports:
In Kunshan, Jiangsu province, sporting goods company Mei’erguang was recently fined RMB 800,000 for illegal use of pirated copies of six programs, including AutoCAD, with a market value totaling RMB 2.7 mln. To date, this is the highest fine to be levied against any Chinese company for use of pirated software.
China’s Intellectual Property [...]
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Symantec announced:
Symantec today announced that it was awarded $21 million in damages against a large network of distributors selling counterfeit Symantec software.
The judgments were handed down by the United States District Court for the Central District of California in Los Angeles, CA in favor of Symantec against ANYI, SILI Inc., Mark Ma, Mike Lee, John [...]
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China Tech News reports:
China has made a new steps in enterprise software legitimacy with up to 1500 large enterprises having completed their software legitimacy audits and another 1300 having been included into a list of the first batch of enterprises that have completed the general software legitimacy work.
…Liu Binjie, director NCAC (National Copyright Administration of [...]
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From Infoworld, via Yahoo News:Once Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) is installed on a PC, that computer will no longer go into limited functionality mode if a user or administrator fails to activate Vista on that system in 30 days or if the system fails Microsoft’s Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) validation, which checks to [...]
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Shanghai Daily reports that Kingsoft is making money:The firm earned 37.75 million yuan (US$5.03 million), a 19-percent growth year on year. Its revenue swelled 85 percent year on year to reach 139.5 million yuan in the period ending June 30.…Kingsoft’s game business, which contributed two-thirds of its total revenue, hit 101.67 million yuan and every [...]
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Microsoft and Founder deepen their relationship, from the AP, via the International Herald TribuneMicrosoft and the No. 2 maker of personal computers in China signed an agreement Wednesday to install Microsoft’s Windows operating system in PCs to combat widespread Chinese product piracy.The agreement with Founder Technology Group shows “the commitment of both companies to protect [...]
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People’s Daily reports on EMC moving ahead with its next R&D facility in China:…[EMC] opened a research and development center in Beijing yesterday, a major part of its plan to raise its investment in China to $1 billion in the next five years.The US-based company opened its first research center in Shanghai last June and [...]
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Reuters, via China Tradezone, reports:China’s battle against intellectual property rights piracy will take “generations”, a senior official said on Thursday, but added the main victims were Chinese and other countries should stop politicizing the issue.Chinese IPR chief Tian Lipu said the government did not fear the United State’s decision to take China to the World [...]
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People’s Daily reports:Legislators in Guangdong Province are planning to amend a draft regulation on the security of computer-based information systems.Elements include:…ensuring website operators “establish a sound security system” and the introduction of “serious punishments for violators of computer information systems”.…Actions defined as posing a threat to security include entering a system without permission, or illegally [...]
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