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Software Industry Group Sues eBay Sellers (PC World via Yahoo! News) - The Software & Information Industry Association has filed nine lawsuits against eBay-based software sellers.

SIIA sues eBay-based software sellers (InfoWorld via Yahoo! News) - Online auction giant eBay has been slow to respond to concerns about pirated software being sold there, prompting the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) to file nine lawsuits against eBay-based software sellers, an SIIA official said.

SIIA Sues eBay-Based Software Sellers (New York Times) - The Software & Information Industry Association has filed nine lawsuits against software sellers for allegedly selling pirated software on eBay.

BMC Software Senior VP Exercises Options (AP via Yahoo! Finance) - A senior vice president at BMC Software Inc., which makes software to manage information-technology systems, exercised options for 50,000 shares of common stock and sold them under a prearranged trading plan, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing Wednesday.

Software nets fine for local business (The Daily Reflector) - The Business Software Alliance on Thursday announced that Ron Ayers Motorsports, a motor sports dealer and equipment supplier based in Greenville, agreed to pay $72,053 to settle claims that it had unlicensed copies of Adobe and Microsoft software on its computers.

UTMB says worrisome software runs smoothly (Galveston County Daily News) - GALVESTON — Despite concerns from consultants who rated the project as poor, nearly $32 million in PeopleSoft software is running smoothly, University of Texas Medical Branch officials say.

Macrovision Agrees to Sell Software Unit (AP via Yahoo! Finance) - Macrovision Corp., the media technology company that is trying to buy GemStar-TV Guide, said Thursday it agreed to sell its software business to an affiliate of private equity firm Thoma Cressey Bravo for about $200 million.

M’sia to benefit from software piracy reduction (The Borneo Post) - KUALA LUMPUR: Ten per cent reduction in PC software piracy would deliver an additional 2,600 new jobs, US$140 million tax revenues and U$660 million in economic growth in Malaysia by 2011, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Global Software piracy study.

Software Industry Files Lawsuits Against eBay Pirates (KRIS-TV Corpus Christi) - The software industry is cracking down on people who are using auction sites to sell illegal copies of their products.

Red Giant Software Sponsors My Toolfarm Contest (Broadcast Newsroom) - DMN Newswire--2008-2-14-- Red Giant Software is sponsoring a contest to let users submit their best work using Red Giant Software?s Magic Bullet Looks or Trapcode Form tools and win a chance to show their work at NAB 2008. Users will upload their videos to the My Toolfarm web site where other users can vote on the submission from now until March 24th, 2008. The winner will get to fly to NAB and ...