Tag: piracy

An Explanation for the Box-office Flop of Oscar-winner The Artist in Brazil: Ticket Shock

Silent movie The Artist may have won five Oscars last night, including Best Picture, ...

Amid Explosive Growth Brazil’s Internet Stumbles over Hacking, Piracy and Censorship

As a rising star on the global stage and as the current financial model ...

Pirated goods are a serious problem in Brazil

Brazil Charged with Leading a World Gang of Intellectual Property Predators

American trade and regulatory expert Lawrence Kogan, in a new University of Miami Inter-American ...

Brazil Is Celebrating: Pirate PCs Fell from 73% to 48% of All Computers Sold

A new study conducted by Brazil’s IT Data and released by  Abinee (Brazilian Association ...

Brazil Starts Year by Burning 130,000 Pirated DVDs and CDs

Around 130,000 counterfeit products, CDs and DVDs, were destroyed by municipal urban control agents ...

Brazil Declares War to Piracy and Promises Zero Tolerance

In his recap of last year, the executive secretary of the Brazilian Ministry of ...

US$ 4 Million Worth of Chinese Pirate Goods Destroyed in Brazil

Thousands of false watches and fashion accessories, along with around 800,000 pirate CDs, will ...

US Group Asks for a Halt to Brazil’s “State-Sponsored Piracy”

The American group Defenders of Property Rights (DPR) today called on the Office of ...

Brazil Loses 1.5 Million Jobs a Year Due to Piracy

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva met yesterday with the Secretary General of ...

64% of Brazil’s Software is Pirated. But US Has 10 Times More Losses.

Brazil’s software piracy is growing again after a steady decline in recent years. The ...

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