Microsoft has always been one of the companies that tried to combat online piracy, perhaps because the company's software is among the most pirated copies in the world.
Thus, the company recently signed a memorandum of understanding with many other companies and anti-piracy organizations that aims to protect intellectual property rights and combat online piracy.
The new agreement was signed by big names such as Google and several major Internet service providers.
The proposal for this agreement came from the Danish Ministry of Culture, which called on all companies not only to combat online piracy, but also for closer cooperation aimed at reducing the financial losses caused by such practices.
As TorrentFreak reports today, the memorandum was signed by the copyright protection group Koda, which represents over 40,000 composers, songwriters and music publishers, as well as banking payment services, such as MasterCard.
As part of the agreement, the companies that signed the memorandum will immediately launch programs to prevent copyright infringement and will begin promoting campaigns that will extol the benefits of paying for content online, thus trying to convince more people to prefer legal products, rather than pirated ones.
Microsoft particular, seems to have a very big problem with combating piracy, as Windows and Office have been among the most pirated products worldwide over the past decade.
Steve Ballmer, former CEO of Microsoft, said that 9 out of 10 Windows users in China use pirated copies.
Currently, the best way to deal with piracy, according to the company, is to develop software that is very difficult to crack.
We strongly disagree, of course, since experience has shown that what locks, unlocks. Microsoft is currently working feverishly to release its next operating system. On the other hand, crackers are already trying to read the peculiarity of the new operating system's security features.
The cat and mouse game has already begun since the very early versions of Windows 10.
Could the continued free distribution of Windows 10 to home users be the solution? This particular solution, despite the fact that at first glance it seems loss-making for the company, may prove to be quite profitable. How?
If Microsoft manages to develop a service to monitor businesses using Windows, it could generate enough revenue from companies alone (a step forward from the path set by Apple).
Besides, the Redmond company seems to no longer only develop software or operating systems, but has also turned to selling devices (smartphones, tablets).
