According to foreign media reports, Microsoft has filed 26 lawsuits in the United States, alleging a number of dealers selling pirated Microsoft software, or selling unauthorized software installed on your computer.
Microsoft hopes the move to combat piracy and protect their own interests.
As part of Microsoft's Genuine Software Initiative, the companies were in Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, New Jersey, New York, Ohio and South Carolina filed a lawsuit.玛丽施拉德 senior attorney at Microsoft (Mary Jo Schrade) said in a statement: "Through this lawsuit, we sent a clear message that we will work to combat unscrupulous dealers of pirated software, so that piracy can not be aoperation of the business model. Last December, Microsoft has taken similar action, a lot of sales of pirated software for individuals and companies filed 10 lawsuits.
Microsoft's main selling software through distribution partners, but many dealers are involved in selling pirated software at lower prices.In order to effectively solve this problem, Microsoft began implementing a similar "secret shopper" survey program, that is, from Microsoft to buy U.S. computer vendor hardware and software, the software and software components and then tested to determine whetheris genuine.In many cases, Microsoft will give notice to the defendant on the offense and how to obtain and distribute illegal provision of genuine software.
As we all know, piracy has become troubled software vendors a big problem.According to Business Software Alliance (BSA) data released on PC worldwide in 2005 about 35% of the installed software is pirated, the resultant loss of up to 340 billion U.S. dollars.BSA executive director Jenny Blanco (Jenny Blank), said: "Piracy is a serious problem. In the U.S., sales of pirated software in software accounted for 1 / 5 ratio, annual losses of 70 billion."
Blanco believes that legal means to effectively combat piracy.He said: "The dealers of pirated software vendor can issue a formal notice, so that the latter understand the sale of pirated software may have serious consequences, so that they can think twice." BSA recently launched a report on Internet fraud sites, and last yearstopped more than 16,000 from piracy, counterfeit goods auction.Blanco also said that, in addition to dealers of pirated software, there are some companies to purchase a software license is installed on hundreds of computers, the problem as intractable.