The BSA seems to be using a
web crawler that crawls the web to find websites hosting pirated software. The
BSA has been using this for a long time to find pirates in Europe and the United
States and has now announced it will now also use this technology in Asia where
high speed internet connections are now getting more common.
So
far, the Web crawler has found in Asia over 22,000 violations of copyright
through file sharing, downloading or purchases through the Internet.
The snooping software targets sites carrying pirate
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The Web crawler was first launched in the United States last year and
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Source: Yahoo.com