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$500M Piracy Ring Busted In China
Blahbooboo3 writes "Reported by several news organizations, pirated software worth more than $500 million has been seized by authorities in China as part of a joint operation run by Chinese police and the FBI. Microsoft estimates that the software piracy of an international counterfeiting syndicate, over the past six years, cost the company at least $2 billion in lost software revenue. Microsoft said that key information in the investigation came from its Windows Genuine Advantage program, an anti-piracy system that can check whether an OS is legit. It's generally accepted that Microsoft has done well out of software piracy: it helps products become widely used, and as the market matures, people start to pay for their software. And this has been a major factor in Windows beating Linux in China, as Bill Gates has admitted."
They must have copied that DVD of Vista like 3 times!
There is always Linux Genuine Advantage http://www.linuxgenuineadvantage.org/ to keep it safe from piracy.
You should have said:
Operation Summer Soltice. Of course, the FBI use the OSS acronymn, because the WGA is driving people to OSS.
The title is of course misleading, because it concerns counterfeiting and not software piracy:
Software Piracy ('soft-"wer 'pI-r&-sE): Robbery of software on the high seas; the taking of software from others on the open sea by open violence; without lawful authority, and with intent to steal.
"The more prohibitions there are, The poorer the people will be" -- Lao Tse
So that's why Vista sales are down...
What? You don't think so? Aw, c'mon...
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