{"id":265,"date":"2011-02-08T05:34:27","date_gmt":"2011-02-08T05:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magazine3.com\/techblog\/demo\/?p=265"},"modified":"2011-02-08T05:34:27","modified_gmt":"2011-02-08T05:34:27","slug":"microsoft-accuses-mexican-drug-cartel-la-familia-of-selling-bootleg-office-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ampforwp.com\/demo\/blog\/2011\/02\/08\/microsoft-accuses-mexican-drug-cartel-la-familia-of-selling-bootleg-office-software\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft accuses Mexican drug cartel La Familia of selling bootleg Office software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-266 alignright\" title=\"microsoft\" src=\"http:\/\/ampforwp.com\/demo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/microsoft.jpg\" alt=\"microsoft\" width=\"288\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ampforwp.com\/demo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/microsoft.jpg 480w, https:\/\/ampforwp.com\/demo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/microsoft-300x189.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 288px) 85vw, 288px\" \/> Microsoft claims La Familia is selling bootleg copies of Office, and the company is using this to show how counterfeiting and piracy is a more serious problem than many people believe.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been a strange week for Microsoft. It began with Google revealing it had set a honey-trap in order to catch Bing copying its search results. And it\u2019s ending with the revelation that the Mexican drug cartel, La Familia, is selling counterfeit copies of its Office software throughout the country.<\/p>\n<p>The claim came during the Global Congress on Combating Counterfeiting and Piracy in Paris, where David Finn, associate general counsel of Microsoft\u2019s anti-piracy unit, said, \u201cThis is the real side, the scary side of counterfeiting and it plagues the world.\u201d Finn suggests a lot of counterfeiting and piracy is linked to organized crime, not just in Mexico but in Asia and right around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft claims La Familia is selling bootleg copies of Office, and the company is using this to show how counterfeiting and piracy is a more serious problem than many people believe. It\u2019s been a strange week for Microsoft. It began with Google revealing it had set a honey-trap in order to catch Bing copying its &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ampforwp.com\/demo\/blog\/2011\/02\/08\/microsoft-accuses-mexican-drug-cartel-la-familia-of-selling-bootleg-office-software\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Microsoft accuses Mexican drug cartel La Familia of selling bootleg Office software&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ampforwp.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ampforwp.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ampforwp.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ampforwp.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ampforwp.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ampforwp.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ampforwp.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ampforwp.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ampforwp.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ampforwp.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}