Counterfeit software becoming increasingly, complex – Microsoft

Microsoft is committed to educate consumers and businesses on the real risks face from the dangerous malware, viruses and spyware that so often result from counterfeit and pirated software.

“A good legal framework and proper enforcement is what is needed to create the enabling environment needed for the development of creativity and innovation,” he said.

Microsoft planned to train 100,000 Africans  in ICT, with a focus on creativity and innovation, with the aim of placing  at least 75 per cent of them in  paid employment, in which Nigeria would be a great beneficiary.I hope Federal Character Commission will be ready to fight the top government officials who often used their positions to place their unborn great grand children at the expense of the non-political. 

Also recognising that piracy hampers the innovation that World IP Day celebrates, popular artiste, Lanre Dabiri, also known as Eldee said, “Piracy suppresses innovation!  A lot goes into nurturing an idea or product to fruition.  When this idea gets stolen, it means you cannot recoup the resources that went into putting your thoughts together and this is unfair to the artiste or property owner.

“I have over 400 songs catalogued in the music industry for 15 years and to date  I  have not made up to N1 million in royalties due to lack of intellectual property rights law.
Abeg make una pity those artists