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Microsoft Comes With A Big Catch On Piracy

By admin ⋅ February 14, 2008 ⋅  Send this to a friend.. ⋅  Print this article. ⋅ Post a comment ⋅ Add to Technorati Favorites

Microsoft has been working over it for almost a decade now,and for a relief it has recently got considerable achievements in suppressing its major effects and getting hold of root causes.Microsoft launched out 21 programs over a decade ,tracing out scores of countries using fake software and pirated versions of the Windows operating system.This trend caught pace,when US Customs officers caught a shipping container in Los Angeles containing a whooping $100 million in fake software, including 31,000 copies of the Windows operating system.

Since then,Microsoft  hasn,t slowed down and has being forcing the investigation through 22 countries. Microsoft estimates the retail value of the software the operation generated at $900 million. James Spertus, a former federal prosecutor in Los Angeles who later led anti-piracy efforts for the Motion Picture Association of America said it was an exceptional achievement  and believed that “There are only going to be a few cases like this in a decade.”

Now Microsoft is eager to talk about the experience because taking down that operation – responsible for about 90 percent of the fake software the company found between 1999 and 2004, more than 470,000 disks – didn’t actually stop piracy. It just left room for more counterfeiters to rise.

Microsoft hopes would-be pirates will think twice if they know how far it will go to protect the computer code worth billions in revenue each quarter.

The pirates mimicked complex holograms stamped directly onto disks and packaging materials embedded with the kind of tiny safety threads used in making money. In some cases, it took experts with microscopes to notice that disks printed with codes used by legitimate software factories lacked certain minuscule, unique smudges.

“The copies were so good, we went to tremendous forensic and scientific lengths to establish that the counterfeits were, in fact, counterfeits,” said David Finn, an associate general counsel at Microsoft.

Talking about all this Microsoft continues to thwart the piracy possibilities and its efiicient counter measures to forfeit Piracy.

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