Software Piracy

Hogwarts Legacy’s system requirements are out now. While the specs seem reasonable at first, developer Avalanche Software highly recommends that you install the game on an SSD — taking up 85GB of storage. The minimum system RAM requirement has been set to 16GB, while the studio will be using Denuvo’s DRM to combat piracy, which has been known...

Microsoft is offering a 50 percent discount to users who have pirated Microsoft Office, in an attempt to convert them into paying customers. The company is also warning users about the dangers of installing pirated software on their computers. However, not all users are eligible to avail of the discount, which is valid only for the first year, acco...

The Nintendo Switch has been hacked again. And it’s been done in such a fashion that Nintendo may not be able to patch it out with an update.

Much to West's embarrassment, Deadmau5, music producer and co-founder of Xfer Records which makes Serum, caught him and tweeted it to more than 3 million of his followers.

After Square Enix and EA Sports with FIFA, Ubisoft is integrating Denuvo software with its upcoming PC release.

The stolen software products included about 170,000 access codes for Adobe Systems and Microsoft products.

Issues related to intellectual property rights, including piracy of films and software, figured prominently during the India-US CEO Forum here, attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Barack Obama.

Delhi High Court has stopped a firm from selling computers loaded with Microsoft software programmes like Windows 7.

It was late one afternoon in January when a squad of plainclothes police officers arrived at the headquarters of a prominent environmental group here. They brushed past the staff with barely a word and instead set upon the computers before carting them away. Taken were files that chronicled a generation's worth of efforts to protect the Siberian wi...

Hogwarts Legacy’s system requirements are out now. While the specs seem reasonable at first, developer Avalanche Software highly recommends that you install the game on an SSD — taking up 85GB of storage. The minimum system RAM requirement has been set to 16GB, while the studio will be using Denuvo’s DRM to combat piracy, which has been known...

Microsoft is offering a 50 percent discount to users who have pirated Microsoft Office, in an attempt to convert them into paying customers. The company is also warning users about the dangers of installing pirated software on their computers. However, not all users are eligible to avail of the discount, which is valid only for the first year, acco...

The Nintendo Switch has been hacked again. And it’s been done in such a fashion that Nintendo may not be able to patch it out with an update.

Much to West's embarrassment, Deadmau5, music producer and co-founder of Xfer Records which makes Serum, caught him and tweeted it to more than 3 million of his followers.

After Square Enix and EA Sports with FIFA, Ubisoft is integrating Denuvo software with its upcoming PC release.

The stolen software products included about 170,000 access codes for Adobe Systems and Microsoft products.

Issues related to intellectual property rights, including piracy of films and software, figured prominently during the India-US CEO Forum here, attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Barack Obama.

Delhi High Court has stopped a firm from selling computers loaded with Microsoft software programmes like Windows 7.

It was late one afternoon in January when a squad of plainclothes police officers arrived at the headquarters of a prominent environmental group here. They brushed past the staff with barely a word and instead set upon the computers before carting them away. Taken were files that chronicled a generation's worth of efforts to protect the Siberian wi...