Stop piracy with law, MS exec says in China
Reuters | at | by Mike
The research chief of Microsoft said on Thursday copy protection technology was not enough to stop software piracy and that a strong legal system was the best defence for intellectual property. "The best way to protect intellectual property is through the legal system," Rick Rashid, the head of Microsoft Research, told Reuters in an interview in Beijing.
Rashid had been asked if Microsoft's research team in China -- a country notorious for rampant illegal copying of software, movies and music -- was working on stronger anti-piracy measures for products like the Windows operating system and Office set of productivity programmes.