![]() ![]() Microsoft previously filed similar cases where the defendants turned out to be computer-related businesses. It then hopes to recoup some of its claimed losses by requesting both actual and statutory damages.įrom the descriptions used in the complaint it seems likely that the target is a company, rather than an individual user. In order to pinpoint the culprit, Microsoft has asked the court for a subpoena to identify the Comcast subscriber in question. ![]() “On information and belief, each of these activations and attempted activations constitutes the unauthorized copying of Microsoft software, in violation of Microsoft’s software licenses and its intellectual property rights.”Īccording to the complaint the suspicious keys were likely stolen from Microsoft’s supply chain and used more often than permitted by the company. “Microsoft’s cyberforensics have identified several thousand product key activations originating from IP address 173.11.224.197, which is presently assigned to Comcast Cable Communications,” Microsoft writes. However, in this case the company noticed that a lot of suspicious activity was coming from a single Comcast connection. Microsoft will log those IP-addresses but has shown little interest in going after casual pirates. Generally speaking, one person who activates a pirated copy of Windows has little to worry about. “Cyberforensics allows Microsoft to analyze billions of activations of Microsoft software and identify activation patterns and characteristics that make it more likely than not that the IP address associated with the activations is an address through which pirated software is being activated,” the company writes in its complaint. The software company has a specialized cyberforensics department which analyzes activation logs to detect activation patterns and characteristics which make it likely that certain IP-addresses are engaged in unauthorized copying. Late last week Microsoft filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against a person, or persons, who activated pirated copies of Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server and Office 10 from a Comcast Internet connection. Traditionally, Microsoft isn’t known for going after people who use pirated copies of Windows, but every now and then the company draws a line in the sand. ![]()
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