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December 2009 - Vol 2, Issue 9
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Happy New Year
Year in Review Quiz
Software Piracy Initiatives Forum
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Greetings!
This month's newsletter brings our annual year in review quiz (and the chance to win a $100 gift certificate from Amazon.com)! Are you up to the challenge?
Happy New Year
While the Oxford University Press may have declared "unfriend" the word of the year, we are happy to have many new subscribers to our newsletter, Twitter feed, blog, and Software Piracy Initiatives Forum on LinkedIn.

We wish you all a healthy, happy, and successful new year and look forward to working together in 2010!
2009 Year in Review Quiz
Ready to play our annual year in review quiz? Take this quiz and submit your answers* to mgoff@vilabs.com - we will draw from the correct entries and award a $100 Amazon.com gift certificate!
 
 
  1. According to Bill Gate's comments in a Q&A session at Carnegie Mellon University in September, how many of the five most profitable businesses in China don't pay for the software they use?
    1. 0
    2. 1
    3. 2
    4. 3
    5. 4
    6. 5

  2. V.i. Labs' Software Piracy Risk Assessment Report from September 2009 identified which of the following as a growing and significant piracy distribution threat?
    1. Peer-to-Peer (P2P) sites
    2. Web-based file sharing services (e.g., Rapidshare)
    3. Usenet
    4. Troller sites

  3. V.i. Labs' Software Piracy Risk Assessment Report from July 2009 identified which of the following as the most common approach for enabling the unlicensed use of software?
    1. Key makers
    2. Exploiting vulnerabilities
    3. Binary patches
    4. Social engineering

  4. As of December 31, 2009 how many times did V.i. Labs "tweet?"
    1. 24
    2. 52
    3. 113
    4. 244

  5. Where should ISVs go to join the Software Piracy Initiatives Forum to read and discuss the latest software piracy news?
    1. MySpace
    2. LinkedIn
    3. Facebook
    4. The Pirate Bay

  6. BONUS QUESTION: How much license revenue (USD) did ISVs using CodeArmor Intelligence recover in 2009?
    1. Thousands
    2. Tens of Thousands
    3. Hundreds of Thousands
    4. Millions
Software Piracy Initiatives Forum
Software Piracy Initiatives ForumWe have established a group on LinkedIn for software vendors concerned with piracy. It is a vendor neutral news and discussion forum for individuals who are responsible for analyzing and addressing the impact of overt piracy and license overuse.
  • How big is the software piracy problem globally?
  • How big is the impact on your company's bottom line?
  • How does your company measure it?
  • What are you doing to address it?
The Software Piracy Initiatives Forum was created to give software vendors a venue to discuss these issues and share their experiences to minimize piracy's impact on the industry.

Join now and see what's on the minds of your peers.

Good luck with our year in review quiz - I'm looking forward to receiving your responses. We'll announce the winner in next month's newsletter.

Best wishes for a great 2010,
 
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