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It's Not Just A Copy It's A Crime – SIAA – Hacks Cracks Serialz Keygen Torrent Peer To Peer

The SIAA (formerly SPA) have resurrected, brushed down and revamped for Gen Y their “It’s Not Just A Copy” campaign circa 1992 for 2009. See the video below.  The idea is to slickly put it towards the community at large that it’s a crime to copy, which includes hacks, cracks, torrent files, serial or serialz, [...]

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Why We Can’t Win The Badware Battle – Until…

Why We Can’t Win The Badware Battle – Until…

With Cornficker recently in the news and 60 Minutes USA (relayed on 60 Minutes Australia) doing a story on it, without bothering to refer to real definitions and using the word “bugs” to refer to worms, the whole scam, spam, splog, piracy scene, the attempts to try and sell so called “OEM” software to the willingly gullible as witnessed across on Steph’s blog one could be forgiven for thinking we’ll never get a handle on the whole “malware, badware” stuff…

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Having A Laugh At The Jolly Roger’s Tonight – Ouch! – Is That The Pirate Bay?

Having A Laugh At The Jolly Roger’s Tonight – Ouch! – Is That The Pirate Bay?

Here you go, mISV’s and ISV”s eat your heart out. This is what many Firefox users are seeing this week when trying to access the website run by those anarchistic assholes in Stockholm this week. While the “team” there are attempting to “solve” the problem I’m cheerfully sitting back and having a bloody good laugh at their expense. :-)

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An Ill Corporate Wind Is Blowing – And Many Are Not Helping One Byte

An Ill Corporate Wind Is Blowing – And Many Are Not Helping One Byte

But this economic uncertainty is not what I’m directly talking about. It is related, sadly because such things I’m going to touch on seem to manifest during recessions and downturns even more than during “good times”…

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The Politics Of Software Pricing Models, FOS, FUD And Economic Pragmatism.

The Politics Of Software Pricing Models, FOS, FUD And Economic Pragmatism.

There can be a lot of heated talk generated when it comes to the pricing of software. From FOS advocates stating it should be free (for reasons that range from ethereal and absurd to downright Marxist), to software companies large and small, the media pundits and the consumer. FOS…

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