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Microsoft battles software pirates across the globe
The scene: Los Reyes, Mexico. The participants: 300 heavily armed law enforcement agents about to embark on a raid. So begins a tantalizing piece from the New York Times detailing Microsoft’s efforts, at home and abroad, to curtail software piracy. The police reached the house undetected, barreled in and found rooms crammed with about 50 […]
Continue reading...App Store Piracy costs developers and Apple $450 million
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
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24/7 Wall Street reports that piracy of iPhone apps has cost developers over $450 million in proceeds. This, of course, assumes that all pirates would have otherwise purchased the apps by legal means. There have been over 3 billion downloads since the inception of the App Store. Assuming the proportion of those that are paid […]
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Thursday, November 18, 2010
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