This is somewhat ironic: a Swiss anti-piracy group is being threatened for breaking the law regarding privacy of data.  Even though their goal is to reveal the identities of people stealing copyrighted information, Swiss law states that identities can not be revealed unless there is a criminal intent.  Even though a lot (well… probably everyone) […]

For many, torrents are an absolutely phenomenal way to quickly acquire freeware based applications from smalltime apps to full-blown operating systems and live CDs.  On the other hand though, torrents can be equally as great to acquire pirated software and multimedia.  Unfortunately for the latter group, anti-P2P organizations are really starting to lay the hammer […]

This just goes to prove the power of numbers on the Internet. Whether or not you are familiar with it, Hollywood and other studio’s have spent millions of dollars trying to encrypt HD-DVDs to the point where they could not be burnt. Well, about 4 months ago, one person was able to crack […]

It all has to do with their WGA, or Windows Geniune Advantage. Everyone who has a Windows OS has probably stumbled into this, but what they might not know is that it will always phone home to Microsoft, no matter if you accept or cancel the installation. The purpose of this is to […]

Now here is something interesting. The people at DriveSentry stated that about half of all pirated versions of Microsoft Vista are in fact Trojan horses. Talk about learning a harsh lesson. While DriveSentry has proved themselves as a reputable security company, it’s amazing to think that almost half of the people that […]

There’s nothing like a publicized contest to get the attention of hackers, especially when the winner gets $40,000. To help put a hinder on piracy, Wibu, an anti-piracy company, is challenging all hackers to see whether or not they can break their encryption. My thoughts… the hackers will find a way.
Heck, if one […]

This baby is definitely on the loose. Already being sent to over 160 domains, this worm is heavily spamming the Internet. Just a fellow reminder: if you happen to stumble on an email with the subject “Happy New Year!”, don’t open it.

Verisign is warning of a new worm that travels via e-mail […]

Credit Card (including PIN number) - $500
Zero day exploits - upwards to $50,000
Knowing that there will always be someone out there who is willing to pay that kind of money for illegal stuff….priceless.
Not that this stuff hasn’t happened before, but the release of Vista sure has been making this stuff a lot more public. […]

It looks like pirates have been able to mix files from previous beta versions into the final version so as to bypass anti-piracy and activation controls. Well, according to Microsoft, this should not be a problem anymore with their most recent updates.
Microsoft has released an update to Windows Vista that is designed to […]

As piracy becomes more of an issue, more remedies are being experimented with and pursued to stop the growing epidemic. Recently, the SIIA won a pretty big case against software pirates, which definitely shows a sign of progress to their anti-piracy campaign.
Two more software pirates are out of the application booty business.
The […]