According to Microsoft's regional legal department based in Singapore), anti-piracy measures are underway to identify a known PC vendors to sell new PCs that have installed pirated or counterfeit Microsoft software to buyers who intend to buy genuine software.
Pirated software will have security and privacy risks are high and vulnerable to the use of e-banking and transactions on the Internet.
Anti-piracy campaign will be conducted for 6 months. Direct communication with the computer vendor is being done at this time.
The focus of this initiative to protect users and equalizes the rule among computer dealer. In this campaign, the private investigator will buy a new computer at random and send the computers to the software engineers who will test whether the computer is sold with the original software and licensed or not.
Dealers who sell computers with genuine software will receive a letter of appreciation from Microsoft, while those who fail to face "mystery buyer" will receive a letter of lawsuits that will be subject to civil lawsuits or reported to the police to face criminal charges.
"In the last 3 years, we have spent much time and effort to educate its dealers about the losses due to computer PC sales that have been loaded with pirated software. We have conducted a survey on dealer lots across the country and issued a letter that is instructive and warnings to more than 2,000 dealers, "said Jonathan Selvasegaram, legal advisor for Microsoft's Intellectual Property, which was launched through its official statement on Wednesday (08/09/2010.)
"We've taken that approach is instructive before but we also recognize the need for more action 'strict' need to be done to protect buyers from problems with security and virus free carried in pirated software," he added.
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