A Chinese man accused of cracking and selling software stolen from Microsoft, Oracle, and Agilent Technologies pleads to guilty copyright violations and wire fraud in U.S. federal court.

Pirate Software recently made headlines. Not for his streaming videos on YouTube or sharing content on Instagram, he grabbed netizens' attention due to Billy Mitchell targeting him on the X ...

Bleeping Computer reported last October that Pirate Bay had brought back the feature. The torrent site's new approach represents a kind of so-called "cryptojacking" that is voluntary in nature.

Pirate Software has been kicked out of the World of Warcraft streamer guild known as OnlyFangs after a botched Dire Maul North run. Dire Maul was recently added to the World of Warcraft ...

On July 3, 2025, YouTuber and streamer Pirate Software, also known as Thor, officially announced that he would be stepping away from Offbrand Games following th ...

Borislav Stefanov By Mark Anderson – Staff Writer, Sacramento Business Journal Apr 19, 2013 Updated Apr 22, 2013 11:43am PDT ...

The takeaway here is that while a greater percentage of individuals in non-U.S. countries pirate software, individuals in the U.S. pirate much more expensive software.

Peterson’s sentence is the longest ever given for software piracy in the U.S., according to the SIIA, with the average sentence over the past six years being 22 months.

To put Peterson's sentence in perspective, in criminal piracy cases, the average damages resulting from pirated software are just over $9 million, or less than half of the $20 million caused by ...

He was ordered to pay $4.1 million in restitution in the case involving software giants Adobe Inc. ADBE and Autodesk Inc. ADSK, as well as Macromedia Inc., which was acquired by Adobe.