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Arxan joins European piracy war

Application hardening vendor Arxan Technologies has announced its presence in Europe as a member of The Federation Against Software Theft (The Federation).

Arxan joins European piracy war

US-based application hardening vendor agrees to help The Federation Against Software Theft fight piracy in Europe

Altium Joins European Fight Against Piracy

Altium Limited has extended its Business Software Alliance (BSA) membership to include the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region. The move will strengthen Altium’s IP protection and complement its anti-piracy movements in China and the rest of Asia. The move will see Altium join BSA’s efforts to crack down on the $US48 billion black hole caused by piracy – with over 40% of these losses stemming from the EMEA region alone.

Call for Artists: European Media Artists in Residence Exchange 2009

The European Media Art Network provides residencies in England, Germany, Bulgaria and the Netherlands for European artists. With support of the European Union - Culture 2007-2013 programme the newly established European Media Art Network will host 16 European Media Artists in Residence Exchanges within 2008 and 2009 and organise a final exhibition in 2009 in Halle (Saale) additional to individual presentations. Europe based Media Artists in the fields of digital media including internet and computer based art, filmmakers, sound and video artists are invited to apply for a two months artist residency at IMPAKT, Utrecht, Netherlands; Interspace, Sofia, Bulgaria; VIVID, Birmingham England or at Werkleitz Center for Media Arts in Halle, Germany.

Non-Disruptive Backups and Migrations Enhances European Patent Protection and Management

The European Patent Office grants European patents. The EPO carries out searches and substantive examinations on a steadily rising number of European patent applications and international applications filed under the Patent Cooperation Treaty. The European Patent Office (EPO) needed to support up to 60 million patents documents and 800,000 patents within a high availability and ultra resilient DB2 environment. The European Patent Office deployed BMC DB2 solutions to more effectively support its customers and the management of its patent applications.

Arxan Expands Anti-Tamper and Piracy Protection for the Microsoft .NET Framework to Include Web 2.0

Bethesda, MD (PRWEB) July 22, 2008 -- Arxan Technologies, a leading provider of application hardening solutions designed to protect software from piracy and tampering, today announced major enhancements to its GuardIT ® for Microsoft .NET (http://www.arxan.com/software-protection/GuardITProducts.php#GuardIT_Net) Framework product that include code protection for client-side web-based Silverlight applications and greater ease of use across a broader range of software development platforms. GuardIT employs dynamic Guard™ protection to harden purely managed applications, as well as mixed mode applications that combine managed and native code.

Arxan joins UK fight against piracy

Arxan Technologies has thrown its weight behind the Federation Against Software Theft (The Federation) after announcing an assault on the UK market.

Inside Africa's PlayStation War

In the rugged volcanic mountains of the Congo the conflict known as Africa’s World War continues to smolder after ten grueling years. The conflict earned its name because at the height of the war eight African nations and over 25 militias were in the combatant mix. But more recently the conflict was given another name: The PlayStation War. The name came about because of a black metallic ore called coltan. Extensive evidence shows that during the war hundreds of millions of dollars worth of coltan was stolen from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The UN and several NGOs claim some of the most active thieves were the Rwandan military, several militias supported by the Rwandan government, and also a number of western-based mining companies, metal brokers, and metal processors that had allegedly partnered with these Rwandan factions.

Call of Duty: World at War Coming to PS3, 360, PC and Wii

Activision and Treyarch announced today that they will be taking Call of Duty players deep into the South Pacific and European theaters this fall for Call of Duty: World at War, a gritty fight that will pit players against enemies that know no surrender and show no mercy. Utilizing the Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare engine, Call of Duty: World at War throws out the rulebook of war to transform WWII combat through a new enemy, new tactics and an uncensored experience of the climatic battles that gripped a generation. As U.S. Marines and Russian soldiers, players will employ new features like cooperative gameplay, and weapons such as the flamethrower in the most chaotic and cinematically intense experience to date.

Piracy Threatens to put French Film Industry Out of Business

French anti-piracy association, the Association Against Audiovisual Piracy (ALPA), claims that piracy in France is so rampant that it threatens to put the entire French movie industry out of business.

Altium joins European fight against piracy

Altium Limited has extended its Business Software Alliance (BSA) membership to include the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region.

A battle over 'the next war'

BATTLING ‘NEXT-WAR-ITIS’: “We should not starve the forces at war today to prepare for a war that may never come,” Defense Secretary Robert Gates says. The Pentagon now focuses on irregular conflicts, but some military officials object.

Reducing Software Piracy Could Have Exponential Effect on Channel Profitability, Says New White Paper

HOUSTON, July 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- A new white paper by IDC released today at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2008 highlights the collateral damage that software piracy is causing to companies across the technology industry. Sponsored by Microsoft Corp. and the International Association of Microsoft Certified Partners (IAMCP), the white paper shows that every dollar Microsoft loses to software piracy translates to $5.50 in lost opportunity for other companies in the partner ecosystem. The white paper points to a stark reality not often highlighted in industry discussions: Software piracy is a wide-ranging problem that deeply affects small companies as well as large software vendors.

PC Manufacturers See Piracy As A Hidden Benefit, Says id Software

Todd Hollenshead, CEO of id Software (think Doom and Quake), accuses PC hardware manufacturers of implicitly supporting piracy of all kinds because they see it as a "hidden benefit" when you buy a PC. This came up in an interview with Gamesindustry.biz, and was part of a larger point aimed at answering the question of why PC manufacturers aren't doing more to stop piracy with hardware measures. When asked if these companies are secretly happy about piracy, Todd says:

First Images of Russian-European Manned Spacecraft

oliderid writes "The first official image of a Russian-European manned spacecraft has been unveiled. It is designed to replace the Soyuz vehicle currently in use by Russia and will allow Europe to participate directly in crew transportation.The reusable ship was conceived to carry four people towards the Moon, rivaling the US Ares/Orion system. This project is the Plan A for the European Space agency. The plan B is an evolution of the ATV proposed by a consortium of European companies led by Astrium."

Companies Coming Around To Piracy's Upside?

traycerb writes "The Economist has an article detailing how numerous companies are finding piracy's silver lining: 'Statistics about the traffic on file-sharing networks can be useful. They can reveal, for example, the countries where a new singer is most popular, even before his album has been released there. Having initially been reluctant to be seen exploiting this information, record companies are now making use of it. This month BigChampagne, the main music-data analyser, is extending its monitoring service to pirated video, too.' The kicker is Microsoft's tacit endorsement of Windows piracy in developing markets, namely China. The big man himself, Bill Gates, says it best in an interview with Fortune last year: 'It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not.

Flaws In a BSA Software Piracy Report?

Ian Lamont writes "The Business Software Alliance has just released its state piracy study (full PDF also available). The BSA says that one in five pieces of software in use in the United States is unlicensed, and notes that piracy rates are highest in Ohio (27%). However, as noted by the Industry Standard, there are problems with the state study, and the way the BSA is presenting the data: the study only includes eight states, and it is making some questionable connections, including the claim that lost state and local tax revenue from piracy would have been enough to 'hire nearly 25,000 experienced police officers.'"

CALL OF DUTY: WORLD AT WAR TO RELEASE XBOX 360 AND WINDOWS PC MULTIPLAYER BETAS IN OCTOBER

London, UK– 4th September, 2008– Boot camp will soon take on a new meaning, as Activision Publishing, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI) and developer Treyarch, have confirmed plans for Call of Duty: World at War multiplayer betas in October for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and separately for download on Windows PC. These betas will serve as an early chance for players to practice the tactics needed for survival in the intense chaos of Call of Duty: World at War’s Pacific and European theatres. Players will experience the game’s new squad system, as well as fan favourite perks and kill streaks.

Gears of War 2's active sniper will not insta-down (Gears of War 2)

The one and only Cliff Bleszinski popped up on the NeoGAF forums where the latest video of Gears of War 2 was being discussed, to clarify the Longshot sniper's abilities. Responding to a remark claiming that "active downs with the Longshot are still existent in Gears 2", Cliff denied the claim, stating that the Longshot will not have insta-down abilities in Gears 2.

Six-month anti-piracy strategy delays Dark Knight piracy for just 38 hours

July 29, 2008 Warner Bros. devoted six months to an extensive anti-piracy strategy for the release of "The Dark Knight", and have deemed the 38 hour period between the film's premiere screening and the first appearance on file-sharing sites to be a success - keeping bootleg DVDs off the streets as the film racked up a record-breaking US$158.4 million on its all important opening weekend.

Silence Therapeutics Announces Successful Opposition of Glover Patent

a leading European RNA interference (RNAi) focused biotechnology company, announced today the successful opposition of a fundamental Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. European patent resulting in the patent being revoked in its entirety. The Opposition Division of the European Patent Office, following a three day hearing, announced its decision to revoke European Patent EP 1 230 375, exclusively licensed to Alnylam Pharmaceuticals from Cancer Research Technology, Ltd (UK). The Patent, commonly referred to as the "Glover" patent, broadly relates to medicaments comprising an RNA interference mediating RNA molecule. Opposition briefs to the Glover patent had been filed by Silence Therapeutics AG, Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH, Quark Biotech, Inc.

Isaac Rosenberg, an artist in the ranks

A frequent complaint of military historians is that the general public’s notion of the First World War is little more than a “myth�, largely fuelled by the enduring popularity of the War Poets. They argue that the widespread belief that the war was futile, uniquely wasteful of human life and conducted by arrogant and incompetent generals persists, in the face of the facts, because people read Wilfred Owen, Robert Graves and Siegfried Sassoon rather than scholarly works of military history. Unlike the ordinary rankers who made up the greater part of the British Army and endured the trenches with stoicism and good humour, the War Poets are dismissed as a “small but unrepresentative group of junior officers� who stand accused of being oversensitive, of being too much concerned with their own finer feelings, even of “whingeing�.

CruiseCam International Moves Forward With Patents in Europe

BIRMINGHAM, MI -- (Marketwire) -- 08/07/08 -- CruiseCam International, Inc. (CCMJ), after years in the process of review by the European Patent Office (EPO), has been allowed the use of a number of critical claims that will comprise the basis of its first European patents pertaining to seat-integrated video recording technology. Through the successful efforts of its patent lawyers CruiseCam now can extend its patents portfolio coverage to most European countries. CruiseCam is now proceeding with the process of obtaining European patents for the future release of its commercial seat-integrated video system that has already been granted patents in the United States.

European spacecraft to skim Martian moon

PARIS -- The European spacecraft Mars Express is to make a daring flyby of the Martian moon Phobos in the hope of gaining insights into its enigmatic surface, temperature and geological past, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Wednesday.

Music authors 'at war' with Commission over copyrights

European composers and songwriters threatened yesterday (3 July) to "play havoc" with the music market by withdrawing their catalogues if the European Commission goes ahead with its plan to introduce more competition between collecting societies.

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