The Business Software Alliance (BSA) and Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) estimated that a total of US$2.9 billion was lost to software piracy in the U.S. and US$11 billion revenue loss worldwide in 1998. The Interactive Digital Software Association estimated that the piracy of packaged entertainment software last year amounted to over US$3.2 billion worldwide for the software gaming industry alone. Most CD-ROM software piracy is currently attributable to counterfeiting by professional pirates. But the interactive and application software publishing industry must now confront two additional threats: Casual copying using CD-recordable drives and unauthorised Internet downloads.
Outboard is wholly against the continued and wholesale theft of artist and copyright work. We will not replicate any media presented to us that is outside our clear procedure guidelines for Disc Replication.
When placing any order, we ask you to complete the Copyright Release form and and submit a hard copy to us along with your component parts and purchase order.
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For further information about Anti Piracy measures in the UK see Media Centre
For further information about copy protection systems contact us or visit http://www.macrovision.com/