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Wikipedia and Google Go Dark For A Day

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Google, Wikipedia and a host of other websites are either going dark or making huge, unmistakable statements on their homepages in protest. The new laws proposed by US legislators, the Stop Online Piracy Act and Protect IP Act, have been attracting a very negative reaction from the web community over the past . . .

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Infographic: Piracy Numbers and Stats

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You of course do not need the Internet to have piracy.  Even before our lives were filled with digital information and materials the illegal copying of information occurred on a regular basis.  The digital age has simply made it easier to do and as you can see by these numbers it . . .

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Microsoft Continues the Anti-Piracy Battle

Learn how to protect yourself from counterfeited software, improper licensing and piracy. . . .

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Windows Genuine Advantage Brief from April 2006

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A couple of years ago (almost three actually) I posted some screenshots from a Windows Genuine Advantage brief I attended online that were quite popular.  During one of my website crashes I lost a lot of things and those slides were part of that loss.

I notice in my traffic logs that I . . .

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