China tells Microsoft to rethink 'black-out' anti-piracy tactics: report

October 28th, 2008

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. China has told the US software giant to reconsider controversial new anti-piracy tools that cause computer screens to turn black if a pirated program is identified, Chinese state media have reported.

China has told US software giant Microsoft to reconsider controversial new anti-piracy tools that cause computer screens to turn black if a pirated program is identified, state media reported.

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• dirk_bruere - Oct 28, 2008
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  China should encourage Linux - a billion Linux users would sink MS
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• Flakk - Nov 15, 2008
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  "Losses caused by Chinese software piracy amounted to 6.7 billion dollars in 2007, up from 5.4 billion dollars in 2006 and 3.8 billion dollars in 2003, figures from the organisation showed."
  
  LOL! wow. With numbers like this its no surprise to me that Big Mic is hitting back.
  
  
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• superhuman - Nov 15, 2008
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  This numbers are completely meaningless, such calculations assume that every user who uses a pirated software would buy an original if he couldn't get pirated one. This is a completely unreal assumption of course. Most would either use some other software or don't use any at all.
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