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SecurityWeek: Lessons Learned for Software Piracy in 2011
December 29, 2011
As 2011 draws to a close, I’ve decided to take a step back and review the past year. Let’s take the lessons learned about software piracy and see how they can be applied in 2012.
SecurityWeek: V.i. Labs Launches Data Service to Hunt Down Unlicensed Software
December 22, 2011
The V.i. Labs Data Service (VDS), an extension to CodeArmor Intelligence, accelerates the process for customers by automatically matching license infringement. This is where it gets interesting. According to V.i., VDS combines business information from Data.com, WHOIS domain registries, IP geo-location databases and federated organizational databases of non-compliant organizations from current V.i. Labs deployments to identify infringing organizations’ names and addresses.
Infosecurity: Vint Cerf leads charge against online piracy legislation
December 16, 2011
Commenting on the SOPA legislation, Vic DeMarines, vice president of products for business software intelligence provider V.i. Labs, told Infosecurity: “Trying to stop piracy by adding new tools to disable access to the piracy channels is a futile strategy for software vendors. Past experience suggests that these tactics only create new methods and approaches for sharing pirated content. Until this bill can address those concerns and target the actual adopters of pirated software it will do little to stop online piracy.”
eWeek: Nine Anti-Software Piracy Ideas That Just Won’t Work
December 7, 2011
Trying to stop piracy by adding new tools to disable access to the piracy channels is a futile strategy for most software vendors.
SecurityWeek: The Accidental Pirate – What Software Vendors and Enterprise Companies Should Know
December 2, 2011
While some piracy can be blamed on deliberate action, more often than not, the reason companies unwittingly become software pirates is due to a misunderstanding of their software licenses.
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Waltham License Compliance Panel 2012
May 1, 2012
V.i. Labs hosted a license compliance panel discussion on "Best Practices for Generating, Investigating and Converting License Compliance Opportunities" featuring guest speakers from Dassault Systèmes, Sullivan & Worcester, and Software Compliance Group.
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05/17/2012
Shining a Light on the Shadow Market
The 2011 BSA Global Software Piracy Study claims a $63 billion global piracy problem with 57% of users admitting they pirate software, but enforcement techniques like whistle blower campaigns and take down notices can yield bad PR. Software Intelligence solutions enable vendors to shine a light on what the BSA calls the “shadow market” by [...]
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BSA 2011 Study Shows Growth in Global Piracy; ISVs to Turn to Compliance Programs to Recover Revenue
V.i. Labs’ top customers have identified more than $2.4 billion in revenue recovery opportunity since deploying CodeArmor® Intelligence; a sample of customers sharing results have reported gains of new license revenue of more than $100 million since 2011 using software intelligence data.
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