Prosecutions in 22 countries, £12m pounds in damages, and 38,000 websites taken down in the last eight months - Microsoft has certainly been getting serious about software piracy.
By Ben King
Published: 2 April 2001 17:32 GMT
The company released a summary of the past eight months of anti-piracy action today, detailing its battle for intellectual property rights across the globe.
In Western Europe, it's mainly been cracking down on people selling software sold through auction sites, including qxl.com in the UK, and German sites including qxl's partner ricardo.de.
Over 79,000 product offerings have been removed from the internet since March 1999, when the company launched its Internet Monitoring Tool, which intelligently searches for illegal offerings from the web.
Most spectacular, however, was last month's successful prosecution of a gang who sold illegally copied software CDs disguised with genuine certificates of authenticity stolen from a printer in Scotland.
The total haul was five million units, with a combined value of $1.7bn. The Business Software Alliance (BSA) estimates the annual total cost of software fraud at $12bn. "So this represents a very significant haul," said Mike Newton, campaigns relations director for the BSA.
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