A Plan for Stopping Online Music & Book Piracy

Online piracy is assuming alarming proportions and will continue to do so with the popularization of internet and better bandwidth availability to customers. Online piracy affects every material that can be moved online - music, video, books and software. A viable plan for stopping online piracy will take into account the numerous p2p distribution and tracker sites along with sites hosted in foreign countries which offers direct download.

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Microsoft Sued Over Windows Genuine Advantage “Spyware”; Seeks Class Action Status

A computer user, Los Angeles resident Brian Johnson, is suing Microsoft Corp. over the company's Windows Genuine Advantage anti-piracy tool, alleging that it violates laws against spyware.

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Revenge of The Vole (aka Microsoft)

I know "The Vole" is so The Inquirerish. However I couldn't resist the intended pun. Google claims in its countersuit filing that Bill Gates warned Kai Fu-Lee that Steve Balmer, CEO Microsoft, is going to sue him and Google to make an example case out of it.

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