by Lewis White
4 months
Yar had, fiddle dee dee, a pirate’s life is the life for a whole lot of UK citizens as UK piracy has risen by almost 60% since the COVID-19 lockdown. In the last week of March, The Guardian reports that visits to piracy webs...
by Surur
7 months
A new Customs policy signed by the Department of Homeland Security is expected to add significantly to Amazon’s operating costs. The new Customs and Border Protection framework will hold platforms responsible for policing co...
by Anmol
1 year
In an operation by a Special Investigation Team of the crime branch, Delhi Police has arrested 3 men, for impersonating as Microsoft Employees. The operation happened a week after Delhi Police received a complaint from Neeraj K...
by Surur
2 years
Microsoft has published the results of an investigation into the penetration of pirated Microsoft software in retail PCs. Importantly the data looked at PCs purchased new, which should, in theory, come pre-loaded with a licensed v...
2 years
Spotify is now cracking down on users attempting to make use of its services without paying. Spotify’s apps could be hacked so users could make use of the service without paying, and now the firm is cracking down on that, s...
by Surur
3 years
The world is slowly recovering from the WannaCrypt ransomware attack which started at the end of last week. Windows 10 users were never affected, and Windows 7 users who regularly installed patched were not either. There are howev...
by Pradeep
3 years
Microsoft Bing is going to demote piracy websites in web search results delivered in the UK. The Intellectual Property Office UK has helped broker an agreement to help Bing and other search engines and creative industries work tog...
by Pradeep
4 years
Microsoft has recently went to court to serve Comcast with a subpoena to identify the Comcast subscriber who allegedly activated thousands of copies of Microsoft software that includes Windows and Office. “On information and be...
5 years
Microsoft recently updated its Services Agreement, which applies to Windows 10, Xbox Live, and other Microsoft services. Following the release of Windows 10, there has been quite a few privacy controversies. Wi-Fi Sense has been ...
5 years
The Windows Phone store may not have the largest number of apps, but it does have several decent apps. As app count is a much touted metric for measuring the quality of app stores, Microsoft has long since attempted to incr...
6 years
Microsoft has signed a MoU with Alibaba in China to raise awareness about risks of using pirated software among Chinese consumers. Alibaba and Microsoft are also strengthening measures to prevent pirated Microsoft products from be...