Microsoft Launches Anti-Piracy Twitter Feed

Reported by eWeek on Thursday, 12 November 2009 (on November 12, 2009)

Microsoft announced that it had launched a dedicated Twitter feed for its anti-piracy enforcement team. Despite attempts by Microsoft and other IT companies to curb piracy, often through aggressive policies, a recent report by McAfee suggests that the rate of file-sharing sites hosting unauthorized content has been rising steadily in the past few months. -
Microsoft's Anti-Piracy Enforcement Team now has a Twitter
feed.

The feed,
which began on Nov. 3 with a link to a Microsoft page describing how to tell
whether a piece of software has been pirated, has only four Tweets but is
expected to expand. A Microsoft spokesperson described the Twitt...

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