Anti-Piracy Unit steps up crackdown on piracy of business software

10 Aug 2011

The Anti-Piracy and Counterfeit Unit of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Sri Lanka Police is stepping up enforcement on businesses in violation of the provision of the Intellectual Property Law of Sri Lanka. The Unit carried out a raid recently suspected of infringing the intellectual property rights of members of the Business Software Alliance, represented by Sudath Perera Associates. Amongst the pirated and unlicensed software found included those from Adobe and Microsoft.