BEIJING--When Bill Gates, the Microsoft chairman, played host to President Hu Jintao of China in Seattle last month, he learned that he had a customer at the apex of the world's biggest market. In a ...

Throughout the game industry’s short history, there’s been ample debate about how much piracy actually impacts a game’s legitimate sales. On one side, some publishers try to argue that every single ...

The Business Software Alliance is hoping to convince international governments, trade associations and companies that cracking down on piracy pays. The group, an antipiracy organization with members ...

We can talk until we're blue in the face about the actual effects of software piracy, but it's not hard to understand why companies like Electronic Arts and Nintendo get up in arms about it. Nintendo ...

An article published by The Economist recently (Entitled “BSA or just BS?”) has revealed that the Business Software Alliance”s (BSA”s) stats on the economic effects of software piracy may be flawed.

PC software piracy was on the upswing in 2008 for the second year in a row, because PC shipments grew fastest in high-piracy countries like China and India, according to a study released Tuesday by ...

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 ...

The results from the Business Software Alliance’s fifth-annual study on global software piracy revealed some statistics that would put a smile on any software company executive’s face: Of the 108 ...

WASHINGTON – Reducing software piracy by just 10 percentage points worldwide would generate 1.5 million jobs and add $400 billion to the world economy, according to a study released Wednesday by the ...