Over the past few years, the price of PC security has been on a consistently downward trajectory. Today, protecting a PC is more affordable than ever, and top of the line security programs are available for between $20 to $40 per year. In spite of that fact, 69% of PC users still appear to be getting their antivirus software for free. Free antivirus software includes the trial versions pre-inst

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We all like free stuff. But when it comes to video games, getting free stuff can be problematic. People devote hundreds of thousands of hours into making the games we love to play, and they simply cannot afford to give their hard work away for free. Unfortunately, with video game piracy being a persistent thorn in the sides of video game manufacturers everywhere, the industry has started lookin

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Good news for anybody in the software industry: piracy in one of the world’s leading illegal software markets has gone down this year. Traditionally, the piracy rate in China (measured by the number of illegal programs installed as a percentage of legal programs) is above 40%. In 2011, that figure went down by 3 percentage points to 38%. While it’s easy to see this as an isolated developmen

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