Piracy
Music publishers plan rights database
January 25, 2011Music publishers are building a song rights database which will make it easier to launch online music services - and fight piracy. The global repertoire database will detail which publisher or song writer owns which rights. That will enable the rights...
Piracy websites attract billions of visits
January 12, 2011A study by anti-fraud firm MarkMonitor has offered a snapshot into the changing nature of online piracy. It monitored illegal traffic levels on 43 file-sharing sites and found that they generated more than 53 billion visits per year. The top three...
Piracy concerns over Apple's new Mac download store
January 09, 2011Pirates have targeted Apple's new software download service just one day after it launched. Several groups claim to have found security flaws in the company's new Mac App Store, which launched on Thursday. The new service allows people to find and...
Moldova with highest rates of software piracy in the world
May 13, 2009Moldova continues to be among the countries with the highest rates of software piracy for PCs, according to a Business Software Alliance study. Seven countries of 110, analyzed in the study, have a piracy rate equal or even higher than 90%: Georgia...
Campaign against software piracy launched in Moldova
November 01, 2006A campaign aimed to reduce the software piracy was launched in Chisinau on Wednesday, as Moldova is a country where the use of unlicensed software is widely spread. An agreement on launch of this campaign was signed Wednesday in Chisinau between the...