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Anti Piracy Enforcement in Action: World’s Top Movie Pirates Get $3 DVDs!

When it comes to copyright piracy, the so-called anti piracy industry players have absolutely no clue who their real friends are. In fact, these intellectual property rocket scientists invest tens of millions in bringing software piracy or copyright violation lawsuits against their top consumers while rewarding those who blatantly steal the highest volume.

The latest brilliant move? Our top-of-the-line piracy friends in China are going to be able to purchase American DVDs for three bucks—that’s $3. Let’s see...

This would be China—one of the world’s leading sources of pirated movies.

This would be the country with the highest percentage of intellectual property and copyright violations in the known galaxy. Think I’m relatively insane? No, I’m not insane, I’m mad. Once again, the good guys are getting hammered while the "bad" guys get rewarded. Check out the original washingtonpost.com article by Joe McDonald (The Associated Press) HERE! Or, read on for more details.

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Anti Piracy: How You’ll Get Caught in The Software Piracy Audit Scam!

One of the key reasons we hear so much about software piracy or music piracy is that virtually any use an average person or company makes of these copyright protected products can be easily interpreted as illegal.

In reality, the vast majority of so-called software piracy events are nothing more than license violations-coupled with lousy record keeping business processes. Of equal importance is that the so-called anti-piracy industry, in reality, invests significantly more time and effort in copyright enforcement than in violations prevention (We’ll discuss this side of the scam in another Briefing).

Our First Bottom Line: There is an enormous and highly lucrative global copyright enforcement industry that feeds on consumer lethargy and it will continue to feed on our individual bottom lines until we all wake up and take action.

Software piracy is--to a very real extent--in the eyes of the beholder. Unfortunately the most powerful beholders have arranged it so that the legal definitions of piracy are so conveniently cloudy virtually anyone--right down to an 11-year old child (and younger) can violate federal and global copyright laws.

Read on for some serious details on how you set yourself up for that punitive copyright violation audit...

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Anti Piracy: Software Enforcement Audits Get More Lucrative Every Day!

In September, 2007, the Business Software Alliance (BSA) announced a record anti piracy settlement of over $3,467,000. The claim involved an undisclosed international media company we’ll call Target IMC. Realistically, the underlying costs of this single punitive copyright compliance audit event—the costs you never see published—easily exceeded $10M-$15M. Read on to discover how your company can be exposed to this type of software piracy audit. More importantly, we also discuss how Target IMC could have prevented, or at very least minimized, the financial impact of their ineffective software asset management techniques.

Do you honestly think that the software police and copyright cops aren't aggressively hunting your company for software piracy, license non compliance, and copyright infringement violations? Think again... Read on.

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