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Microsoft sues Rochester firm for piracy
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| As part of a global antipiracy push, software giant Microsoft is taking aim
| at a Rochester business -- Miracle Computer LLC.
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| In a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis Monday, the maker of
| the Windows operating system accuses Miracle of a practice called hard-disk
| loading, meaning selling computers with unlicensed versions of Microsoft
| software.
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http://news.postbulletin.com/newsmanager/templates/localnews_story.asp?z=7&a=367237
Microsoft sues two Portland companies
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| Microsoft has filed suit against two Portland companies that it accuses of
| software piracy.
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| The suits, filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Portland, allege that
| Portland-based Grand Avenue Microtech and Gresham-based Agility Corporate
| Solutions “have infringed Microsoft’s copyrights and trademarks.”
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http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2008/10/20/daily25.html
Microsoft suit targets 2 area stores
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| Microsoft has accused two central Ohio companies of software piracy as part
| of a sweep this week that includes accusations against 18 other software
| resellers in nine states.
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http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/business/stories/2008/10/21/microsoft_lawsuit_2.ART_ART_10-21-08_C10_N3BLIFA.html?sid=101
Microsoft, the next SCO. Sue, sue, sue.
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Anti-piracy day? No thanks
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| Today is Microsoft’s self-declared Global Anti-Piracy Day. No surprise then
| that the local arm of the Business Software Alliance has been ringing up
| journalists over the past couple of days with the ominous news that South
| Africa is losing between R2.8 billion to software pirates every year.
|
| As usual, the BSA statements are sweeping and presumptive.
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| For a start, South Africa doesn’t really lose all this money. Most of the
| licensing money heads straight overseas to companies like Microsoft and Adobe
| with this country holding on to very little of it.
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http://www.tectonic.co.za/?p=3405
Free Software leader slams NZ copyright
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| “New Zealand’s law does not go as far as the DMCA in the US, but it is unjust
| nonetheless,” he says.
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| “DRM is nearly always the result of a conspiracy of companies to restrict the
| technology available to the public. Such conspiracy should be a crime, and
| the executives responsible for it should be sentenced to prison.”
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| Stallman’s other mission here is to promote the Free Software Movement. The
| creator of the GPL licence, under which most free software is distributed, is
| at pains to correct misunderstandings of what the term “free software” means
| and to draw a distinction between it and the open source movement.
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http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/0064FE274A08BA2CCC25749A00383CB3
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