2 Dec 2010
The Anti-Piracy and Counterfeit Unit, recently established at the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Sri Lanka Police carried out a series of raids on an international group of companies suspected of infringing the intellectual property rights of the Business Software Alliance members. Among the pirated and unlicensed software found included those from Adobe, Autodesk and Microsoft. The use of pirated and unlicensed software in businesses is a criminal offence under the Intellectual Property Law, No.36 of 2003.