EDITOR'S NOTE

Good morning,

When I read the headline on the first story, I thought it was asking us to embrace piracy.

What the story is really about is creating a business from copying the innovative ways that pirates exploit opportunities in the market.

Now, whether there's actually a business model in that or not...

-- Ry Crozier

TODAY ON ITNEWS

By Phil Muncaster | May 16, 2009

Companies should try to copy pirates rather than wasting time trying to beat them, according to experts at a UK conference.

By Shaun Nichols | May 15, 2009

A complex new malware attack is setting infection records and raising alarms from security experts.

By Georgina Prodhan | May 16, 2009

Venture-capital investments have been falling in a depressed economy but this is not necessarily stifling technology start-ups, as it becomes easier to get firms off the ground without outside investment, Microsoft says.

By Iain Thomson | May 16, 2009

Monty Widenius, the main author of MySQL, is setting up the Open Database Alliance (ODA) to consolidate work on the database.

By David Neal | May 16, 2009

NEC has withdrawn its participation in a Japanese government programme to build a supercomputer.

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