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			<title>Microsoft turns up the heat on channel</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Two more resellers caught selling pirated software in the UAE]]></description>
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			<description><![CDATA[Autodesk and Kuwait government's Intellectual Property Department to co-operate on copyright infringement]]></description>
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			<description><![CDATA[There has been a marked rise in the number of vendors clamping down on software piracy during the past couple of years. Violators have been raided, businesses targeted and governments pressured to catch perpetrators.]]></description>
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			<title>Middle East lagging in IT competitiveness</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[EIU report shows Middle East economies lacking key factors to drive competitive IT industry]]></description>
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			<title>Qatari authorities catch reseller with pirate software</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Reseller caught with counterfeit software by joint MOE and Microsoft raid]]></description>
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			<title>UAE cracks down on software pirates</title>
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			<title>Fighting piracy</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The piracy problem in the Middle East is used as an excuse for all sorts of issues impacting the region’s broadcast and media publishing sectors.]]></description>
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			<title>Kuwait Ministry of Commerce &amp;amp; Industry to launch anti-piracy campaign</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Kuwait Ministry and Business Software Alliance to launch campaign to tackle high software piracy rate  ]]></description>
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			<title>GCC bucks piracy trend </title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Performance improves across region, despite biggest increase in global piracy in four years, study finds.]]></description>
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			<title>Software piracy rates on the rise worldwide</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[IDC and Business Software Alliance report shows global software piracy up 3% in 2007  ]]></description>
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			<title>Qatari resellers collared by Microsoft</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Microsoft Gulf has carried out the latest raid targeting software right infringers in the Middle East.]]></description>
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			<title>Oman reseller jailed for software piracy</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Reseller sentenced to six months in prison and ordered to pay two thousand riyal compensation for IPR offences  ]]></description>
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			<title>Software pirates sail on</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Software piracy is a big regional problem, but businesses and retailers keep using illegal software and keep getting caught.    ]]></description>
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			<title>Saudi firm sued for $1.3mn over software piracy</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Lawsuit calls for cancellation of firm's commercial registration and hike in penalties.]]></description>
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			<title>Saudi company's pirated software leads to SR5 million lawsuit</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Business Software Alliance files damage claim worth $1.3 million following commercial use of illegal software]]></description>
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			<title>Arab world to fight $50bn fraud 'epidemic'</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Arab League backs efforts to educate businesses over software piracy.]]></description>
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			<title>Resellers raided in Abu Dhabi</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[BSA and Abu Dhabi authorities seize pirate software CDs in raids on IT resellers  ]]></description>
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			<title>Software piracy cut could create $240m for UAE</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[BSA and IDC study suggests 10% cut in software piracy would create $240m in economic growth  ]]></description>
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			<title>Business Software Alliance holds anti-piracy event in Bahrain</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Anti-piracy roadshow to promote IPR issues hosted by BSA and the Bahraini Ministry of Information  ]]></description>
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			<title>Qatar strikes back in software battle</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[BSA hosts anti-piracy roadshow in Qatar  ]]></description>
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			<title>Saudi failing software industry</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Interior Ministry needs to give full backing to fight against software piracy, Business Software Alliance says  ]]></description>
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			<title>Saudi failing software industry</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Interior Ministry needs to give full to fight against software piracy, Business Software Alliance says.]]></description>
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			<title>Middle East piracy efforts given a boost</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Egyptian government body ITIDA and BSA hold joint regional workshop in bid to stem the rise in cyber crime in the region.  ]]></description>
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			<title>Software sinners </title>
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			<description><![CDATA[  Viewed by software developers as an unrelenting affliction that eats into the revenues of authorised channels, the pervasiveness of piracy in the Middle East is, to put it bluntly, beyond farcical. Channel Middle East investigates whether the contemporary strategies used to thwart unscrupulous traders from making a mockery out of the region’s software industry will really make a difference.   ]]></description>
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			<title>Software piracy increasing in UAE</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The software piracy rate in the UAE increased by 1% last year, according to figures from global research firm IDC cited by Business Software Alliance (BSA).]]></description>
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			<description><![CDATA[  Three illegal software traders in Sharjah have become the latest parties to meet the long arm of the Business Software Alliance (BSA) following yet another set of raids initiated by Microsoft.  ]]></description>
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			<description><![CDATA[But resellers divided over piracy raids.  ]]></description>
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			<title>Eight arrested in piracy raids</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Authorities in the UAE have continued their crackdown on illegal software.]]></description>
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			<description><![CDATA[  Software pirate cuts deal with Microsoft.]]></description>
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