As the world moves toward an information based economy, one of the biggest and most expensive threats is software piracy. According to The Software Publishers Association, pirated software costs the ...

The co-leader of one of the oldest piracy groups on the Internet, arrested in December in a federal software piracy probe (see story), pleaded guilty yesterday to conspiracy charges in federal court.

Big vendors such as Microsoft and IBM say that they’re collectively losing billions of dollars a year in software sales because of piracy, and are working together and with government to address the ...