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Good for them!
Microsoft goes after pirates who allegedly activated 'thousands of...
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I wonder how much they can do if this activity comes from another country that does not cooperate.
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I hope the judgement goes in the favor of Microsoft.
Trying to stop counterfeiting is a good thing.
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Who ever has that Comcast IP address is who they are targeting, that is, to the best of my knowledge, somewhere in the U.S.
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If you are right Derek, then they have a good chance to get the issue resolved. But they can always pop up from some other corner. In any case, it would be good if they could stop the pirates.
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I'm going by what the article said, I don't think Comcast has internet service outside the U.S. and the article is about a single IP address,
...but for at least the past three years -- the Infringing IP Address has been used to activate thousands...
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Intellectual property theft is reprehensible. They should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
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Microsoft goes after pirates who allegedly activated 'thousands of...
Posted: 13 Mar 2016
Microsoft goes after pirates who allegedly activated 'thousands of copies' of Windows, Office
SourceMicrosoft has asked a federal judge permission to serve Comcast with a subpoena to identify alleged software pirates who have activated thousands of copies of Windows 7 and Office 2013 using stolen or abused codes, according to court filings.
"For an unknown period of time -- but for at least the past three years -- the Infringing IP Address has been used to activate thousands of Microsoft product keys," Microsoft said in a March 4 motion to a Seattle federal court.
Those keys had been stolen from the company's supply chain, used more times than legal, were actually keys assigned to someone else or were activated outside the geographic region they were intended for.
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