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Report: Global Software Piracy Dropping Very Slowly (NewsFactor via Yahoo! News) - Efforts to reduce software piracy are working, but the reduction is slow and businesses are losing revenue in the meantime, according to a new report.

DivX offers Mac video encoding software (Macworld.com via Yahoo! News) - DivX 6 for Mac is now available — a new version of the digital video compression technology that’s become increasingly widespread on PCs and on consumer DVD players. It’s available for download — a component that allows DivX movies to be encoded on the Mac is free, although the encoding software cost US$19.99 to register.

Software piracy curb would boost global economy: study (AFP via Yahoo! News) - Curbing the use of illegally copied software would yield vast economic benefits globally -- including in countries like China and Russia, where piracy rates are high, an industry study concluded.

Software piracy costing billions of dollars, thousands of jobs, study says (Canadian Press via Yahoo! News) - TORONTO (CP) - Software piracy is costing Canada's information technology sector billions of dollars and thousands of jobs, according to a study by the Canadian Alliance Against Software Theft.

More than half of Asia's software illegal: study (AFP via Yahoo! News) - More than half the computer software used in the Asia Pacific region last year was illegally downloaded and cost the region billions in lost economic potential, a study released said.

Rampant software piracy stifles growth: survey (Reuters via Yahoo! News) - Software piracy is rampant and hampering economic growth, and it is increasingly in the hands of organized groups which are regarded as legitimate businesses in some countries, a survey said on Thursday.

BBN Technologies to Develop Open-Source Radio Software (InformationWeek) - The software will be used in software-defined radios, which are potentially much more flexible and get better reception than radios where the logic is frozen in hardware.

Open-source software start-up bags $5 million (CNET) - Business intelligence software company receives big investments from NEA and Index Ventures.

Study: Reduce software piracy, increase revenues (CNETAsia) - Countries with high software piracy levels stand to gain the most economically, if they reduced the use of bootleg software, says IDC.

Report: Cut Software Piracy, Boost Global Economies (TechWeb) - A 10-percent reduction in software piracy would boost the U.S. economy by $125 billion, a report released by the Business Software Alliance said Thursday.