Microsoft is celebrating October 21 as Global Anti-Piracy Day but contrary to what you may think, this event is not all about educating consumers the ill-effects of software piracy.
Microsoft will instead use this as a platform to step up legal action against software pirates though raids by local law enforcement agencies and by filing civil cases against pirates across the globe. Details here.
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Reader Comments
The only one loosing $$ in this whole effort is Microsoft.
Its spending money to catch people(aka pirates) stealing the money.
so they’re spending the money anyway ! (just hope that what they spend is much less to what they gain of this whole effort)
Written by Swaroop on 10.21.08
Well, that was supposed to be a link to ‘talk like a pirate day’ - link
Written by Rob Dunn on 10.21.08
It seems like Microsoft would have a little more trouble finding the people who pirate their software, as opposed to the recording industry. It’s a losing battle for sure.
Written by CoolProducts on 10.22.08