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Microsoft turns up the heat on channel
Tuesday, 10 March 2009
Tuesday, 10 March 2009
Two more resellers caught selling pirated software in the UAE
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Autodesk and Kuwait's IP Department to collaborate on piracy
Tuesday, 24 February 2009
Tuesday, 24 February 2009
Autodesk and Kuwait government's Intellectual Property Department to co-operate on copyright infringement
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On high alert
Thursday, 18 December 2008
Thursday, 18 December 2008
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.
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Middle East lagging in IT competitiveness
Thursday, 18 September 2008
Thursday, 18 September 2008
EIU report shows Middle East economies lacking key factors to drive competitive IT industry
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Qatari authorities catch reseller with pirate software
Thursday, 11 September 2008
Thursday, 11 September 2008
Reseller caught with counterfeit software by joint MOE and Microsoft raid
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UAE cracks down on software pirates
Monday, 18 August 2008
Monday, 18 August 2008
Microsoft and the Ministry of Economy act on reports of pirated software being sold in local computer stores.
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Fighting piracy
Friday, 18 July 2008
Friday, 18 July 2008
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.
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Kuwait Ministry of Commerce & Industry to launch anti-piracy campaign
Sunday, 22 June 2008
Sunday, 22 June 2008
Kuwait Ministry and Business Software Alliance to launch campaign to tackle high software piracy rate
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GCC bucks piracy trend
Wednesday, 14 May 2008
Wednesday, 14 May 2008
Performance improves across region, despite biggest increase in global piracy in four years, study finds.
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Software piracy rates on the rise worldwide
Wednesday, 14 May 2008
Wednesday, 14 May 2008
IDC and Business Software Alliance report shows global software piracy up 3% in 2007
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Qatari resellers collared by Microsoft
Thursday, 1 May 2008
Thursday, 1 May 2008
Microsoft Gulf has carried out the latest raid targeting software right infringers in the Middle East.
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Oman reseller jailed for software piracy
Wednesday, 19 March 2008
Wednesday, 19 March 2008
Reseller sentenced to six months in prison and ordered to pay two thousand riyal compensation for IPR offences
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Software pirates sail on
Tuesday, 18 March 2008
Tuesday, 18 March 2008
Software piracy is a big regional problem, but businesses and retailers keep using illegal software and keep getting caught.
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Saudi firm sued for $1.3mn over software piracy
Monday, 17 March 2008
Monday, 17 March 2008
Lawsuit calls for cancellation of firm's commercial registration and hike in penalties.
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Saudi company's pirated software leads to SR5 million lawsuit
Monday, 17 March 2008
Monday, 17 March 2008
Business Software Alliance files damage claim worth $1.3 million following commercial use of illegal software
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Arab world to fight $50bn fraud 'epidemic'
Wednesday, 27 February 2008
Wednesday, 27 February 2008
Arab League backs efforts to educate businesses over software piracy.
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Resellers raided in Abu Dhabi
Saturday, 23 February 2008
Saturday, 23 February 2008
BSA and Abu Dhabi authorities seize pirate software CDs in raids on IT resellers
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Software piracy cut could create $240m for UAE
Monday, 11 February 2008
Monday, 11 February 2008
BSA and IDC study suggests 10% cut in software piracy would create $240m in economic growth
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Business Software Alliance holds anti-piracy event in Bahrain
Monday, 14 January 2008
Monday, 14 January 2008
Anti-piracy roadshow to promote IPR issues hosted by BSA and the Bahraini Ministry of Information
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Qatar strikes back in software battle
Monday, 17 December 2007
Monday, 17 December 2007
BSA hosts anti-piracy roadshow in Qatar
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Saudi failing software industry
Monday, 10 December 2007
Monday, 10 December 2007
Interior Ministry needs to give full backing to fight against software piracy, Business Software Alliance says
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Saudi failing software industry
Sunday, 9 December 2007
Sunday, 9 December 2007
Interior Ministry needs to give full to fight against software piracy, Business Software Alliance says.
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Middle East piracy efforts given a boost
Tuesday, 18 September 2007
Tuesday, 18 September 2007
Egyptian government body ITIDA and BSA hold joint regional workshop in bid to stem the rise in cyber crime in the region.
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Software sinners
Wednesday, 1 August 2007
Wednesday, 1 August 2007
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.
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Software piracy increasing in UAE
Tuesday, 3 July 2007
Tuesday, 3 July 2007
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).
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Sharjah software resellers busted
Monday, 2 July 2007
Monday, 2 July 2007
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.
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Eight arrested in piracy raids
Tuesday, 5 June 2007
Tuesday, 5 June 2007
Authorities in the UAE have continued their crackdown on illegal software.
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MoE clamps down on piracy
Sunday, 22 April 2007
Sunday, 22 April 2007
The Ministry of Economy is applauded for its bid to curb mounting illegal software distribution in the UAE.
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Store signs anti-piracy agreement
Thursday, 12 April 2007
Thursday, 12 April 2007
Microsoft has reached an out-of-court settlement with a Dubai computer retailer following a piracy raid.
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BSA holds IPR summit in Jordan
Thursday, 1 March 2007
Thursday, 1 March 2007
Anti-software piracy body brings together authorities to discuss IPR challenges.
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Pole position
Thursday, 1 February 2007
Thursday, 1 February 2007
Not only is Bahrain home to the Middle East's only Grand Prix racetrack, it is also a driving force behind the region's technology growth. Channel Middle East takes a pitstop to assess if the Bahraini channel can maintain the pace.
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BSA vows to sink Middle East pirates
Thursday, 1 February 2007
Thursday, 1 February 2007
Jawad Al Redha, co-chairman at the Middle East set-up of industry body the Business Software Alliance discusses the tricky issue of regional software piracy and sheds some light on the measures being taken to clamp down on it.
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Anti-piracy raids on resellers in Kuwait
Sunday, 3 December 2006
Sunday, 3 December 2006
The Kuwaiti Ministry of Information has conducted a series of raids on three computer resellers involved in the use and trade of illegal software
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Setback for Lebanese clampdown on piracy
Tuesday, 31 October 2006
Tuesday, 31 October 2006
Head of government unit established to reduce software piracy claims efforts have been hit by a recent outbreak
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Jordan court sends software pirate to prison
Thursday, 21 December 2000
Thursday, 21 December 2000
Three month prison sentence sends shock waves through Jordanian reseller community. BSA Middle East's new man, Jawad Al Redha, will welcome the news.
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Saudi Arabia sets out to crush piracy
Monday, 27 November 2000
Monday, 27 November 2000
Saudi Arabian authorities showed zero tollerance as they steamrollered 300,000 illegally copied CDs and diskettes in front of Riyadh computer dealers.
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All roads lead to Buraimi?
Thursday, 28 September 2000
Thursday, 28 September 2000
In a two-month long undercover report, Windows User sent its chief undercover reporters on a mission spanning the Gulf and Asia to discover the real story about piracy in the Middle East.
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Abu Dhabi Police pull off successful anti piracy raid
Sunday, 30 July 2000
Sunday, 30 July 2000
Authorities size 19 PCs from Abu Dhabi company
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