Jun 05
Copyright infringement is the sincerest form of flattery.
What’s a Splog?
A splog or “spam blog” is a blog that steals content from other web sites, then aggregates and republishes all or some of the content on its own blog.
Splogs are created to promote and increase search engine ranking of affiliated web sites, and/or to make money from ads shown on the splog. Typically splogs are automated, but they can also be manual copy & paste. A recent study indicated that 56% of all blogs are spam, and there are over 575 thousand splogs reported.
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Tags: Anti-Piracy, Blog, Blogging, Content-Piracy, Content-Theft, DMCA, Fair-Use, Spam, Spam-Blog, Splog, Splogger, Splogging, Web
Jun 02
If you are a .NET developer, how would you feel if your original C# or VB source code was published on the Web for the world to see? That’s exactly what happens if you release your .NET software without obfuscation.
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Tags: .NET-assembly, Anti-Piracy, Development, Disassembly, Obfuscation, Obfuscator, Piracy, Reflection, Reflector, Reverse-Engineering, Xenocode
Jun 02
About one-third of all software installed on personal computers globally in 2006 was pirated, according to a study from IDC. This resulted in a worldwide software revenue loss of $40 billion, an increase of more than $5 billion or 15% over 2005. The software piracy rate exceeded 60% in more than half of the 102 countries studied, and exceeded 75% in about one-third of the countries.
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Tags: Anti-Piracy, BSA, Business, Piracy, SIIA, Software-Piracy
