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NCSP Task Force Makes Security Recommendations

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Software giants Microsoft and Computer Associates are heading up the National Cyber Security Partnership, a task force that is calling for security in software development from the start. The NCSP also is suggesting a more prominent role for government in securing software during the development process. The group, which released its first round of recommendations…

Ballmer Pushes for War on Hacking

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is ratcheting up the computer industry establishment’s pressure on hackers, meeting this week in Washington, D.C., with Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge and IT industry leaders to decry Internet crime. Ballmer observed that the circle of active hackers today is largely “far-flung and anonymous” but could wreak havoc on the country’s…

Congress Considers DMCA, Consumer Copying

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

This week’s U.S. congressional hearing on the loosening of DVD and other copying restrictions based on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) of 1998 might signal a change in attitude toward laws that have been the basis of infringement suits against companies and consumers. Some, including lawmakers on the U.S. Congressional Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade…

EC Passes Controversial Patent Directive

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

The European Commission (EC) has passed a controversial directive that opponents claim will bolster the lot of big companies at the expense of small ones and will stifle innovation. The so-called Computer-Implemented Inventions directive, which would harmonize how software patents are issued throughout the European Union, created a furor when it was proposed last year.…

Software Piracy Worldwide

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Software piracy is so widespread that it exists in homes, schools, businesses and government offices. According to the Business Software Alliance (BSA), an international association representing the leading software developers, software piracy is practiced by individual PC users as well as computer professionals who deal wholesale in stolen applications. The problem of software piracy is…

Worldwide Software Piracy Losses: $29 Billion

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

More than a third of the software on the world’s PCs has been pirated from its makers, according to a study released yesterday by the Business Software Alliance (BSA), whose members include Adobe, Apple, Cisco Systems, IBM and Microsoft. The annual study — this year conducted for the first time by IDC of Framingham, Massachusetts…

Industry Alliance Takes Stance on Induce Act

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

A trade group of technology companies has issued a policy statement urging Congress to take a close look at the controversial, so-called Induce Act. The Business Software Alliance (BSA) adopted a policy urging that “U.S. Senate legislation introduced to stem the growth of online piracy [Induce] should be clarified to ensure that it is properly…

War Over File-Swapping Continues

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

P2P operators aren’t responsible for their users’ online file-swapping activities, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit ruled in the landmark MGM v. Grokster decision. Still, Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) boss Mitch Bainwol says, “This decision does nothing to absolve these businesses from their responsibility as corporate citizens to address the…

Microsoft Offers Trade-Ins for Pirated XP in UK

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

In an attempt to cut down on the use of counterfeit software use, Microsoft is allowing users of non-licensed copies of Windows XP in the United Kingdom to trade them in for legitimate versions of the operating system. The program, Windows XP Counterfeit Project, has some strings attached. To be eligible, users must live in…

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