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| Microsoft Calls Today Global Anti-Piracy Day                       |
|   from the pirates-live-for-live-cd-distros dept.                  |
|   posted by timothy on Tuesday October 21, @10:40 (Microsoft)      |
|   http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/21/1422247 |
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[0]arcticstoat points out an article at Custom PC, according to which:
“Microsoft has announced that today is [1]Global Anti-Piracy Day.
Launching several global initiatives, the aim is to raise awareness of
the damage to software innovation that Microsoft says is caused by
piracy. … As well as educating people about piracy, Microsoft has also
initiated a huge list of legal proceedings that it’s taking out against
pirates. Microsoft isn’t messing about when it says ‘global’ either. The
list of 49 countries that Microsoft is targeting spans six continents,
and ranges from the UK and the US all the way through to Chile, Egypt,
Kuwait, Indonesia and China.” Interestingly enough, unauthorized copies
of Vista might not be harming the company all that much: reader
[2]twitter was among several to contribute links to a related story at
Computer World which highlights Microsoft attorney Bonnie MacNaughton’s
acknowledgement that [3]pirates prefer Windows XP over Vista and Office
2003 over 2007.

Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/10/21/1422247

Links:
0. http://www.russell-crow.com/
1. http://www.custompc.co.uk/news/605058/microsoft-announces-global-anti-piracy-day.html
2. http://slashdot.org/~twitter/journal/177855
3. http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9117569&intsrc=news_ts_head