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Companies Coming Around To Piracy's Upside? (Slashdot)

traycerb writes "The Economist has an article detailing how numerous companies are finding piracy's silver lining: 'Statistics about the traffic on file-sharing networks can be useful. They can reveal, for example, the countries where a new singer is most popular, even before his album has been released there. Having initially been reluctant to be seen exploiting this information, record ...

BSA lauds creation of inter-agency piracy body (Philippine Daily Inquirer)

MANILA, Philippines -- The Business Software Alliance (BSA) praised recent anti-piracy efforts by the government but noted that the current piracy rate has seen little improvement.

Cop tips to fight piracy (The Telegraph)

Police officers from Calcutta and six districts of the state on Friday attended a workshop on new forms of music piracy and ways to curb them.

Kuwait steps up software piracy crackdown (ITP.net)

Authorities raid two shops in Hawalli, seize large quantity of counterfeit programs.

Flaws In a BSA Software Piracy Report? (Slashdot)

Ian Lamont writes "The Business Software Alliance has just released its state piracy study (full PDF also available). The BSA says that one in five pieces of software in use in the United States is unlicensed, and notes that piracy rates are highest in Ohio (27%). However, as noted by the Industry Standard, there are problems with the state study, and the way the BSA is presenting the data: the ...