V.i. Labs Webinar Will Focus on Fight Against Use of Pirated Software

Online conversation includes best practices from former Microsoft anti-piracy
expert
WALTHAM, Mass.--(Business Wire)--
V.i. Laboratories, Inc. ("V.i. Labs"), a leading provider of piracy business
intelligence and software protection solutions, will host an online discussion
on quantifying the scope and revenue impact of software piracy on independent
software vendors (ISVs), as well as creating actionable leads by identifying
users of unlicensed software.

On Thursday, June 18, 2:00 p.m. EDT/11:00 a.m. PDT, former Microsoft Director of
Worldwide Anti-piracy Investigations Richard LaMagna and V.i. Labs Vice
President of Products Victor DeMarines will offer insight and recommendations on
combating software piracy. A Question and Answer session will follow the
presentation.

LaMagna will discuss best practices for building an anti-piracy program to
identify and recover revenue from businesses using unlicensed software, while
DeMarines will introduce methods for equipping legal and sales teams with
indisputable evidence to support recovery objectives.

"Many software vendors struggle to measure the extent of damages caused by
piracy and the illegal use of their products," said DeMarines. "As a result,
they are ill-prepared to make data-driven decisions regarding appropriate
strategies and tactics to address this problem. We feel better education of this
problem is the best course of action to begin fighting this problem."

Webinar attendees will learn:

* How to measure the scope and impact of software piracy
* Best practices for building an anti-piracy program
* How software vendors have evolved their anti-piracy approaches to recover
revenue

Webinar Registration Link:

Thursday, June 18 at 2:00 p.m. EDT/11:00 a.m. PDT - Click here to register

About the presenters:

Richard C. LaMagna
President, LaMagna and Associates, LLC

Rich LaMagna was recruited by Microsoft in April 1999 to serve as Director of
Worldwide Anti-piracy Investigations and Law Enforcement Programs, Legal and
Corporate Affairs. In 2004 he then became Director of Law Enforcement Training
and Outreach on the Microsoft Internet Safety Team. He left Microsoft in 2006 to
start his own consultancy. His recruitment by Microsoft followed a distinguished
28-year federal law enforcement career that culminated as Deputy Chief of
Intelligence, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Headquarters.

Victor DeMarines
VP, Products, V.i. Labs

Victor DeMarines brings extensive security product management and marketing
experience to V.i. Labs, where he is responsible for product strategy and
direction. He is a frequent speaker and author on topics including piracy,
reverse engineering and the protection of intellectual property.

About V.i. Laboratories (V.i. Labs)

V.i. Labs is the first company to offer Piracy Business Intelligence and
Software Protection solutions that enable companies to recover revenue and
protect their software intellectual property by detecting, reporting, and
preventing the misuse of their applications. Its patented CodeArmor platform
allows software vendors and enterprise organizations to harden their
applications against theft and tampering, and to gain business intelligence on
the unlicensed use of their software to uncover new revenue streams. V.i. Labs
is privately held and is headquartered in Waltham, Mass. For more information,
please visit www.vilabs.com.

V.i. Labs
Michael Goff, 781-398-3451
mgoff@vilabs.com
@vilabs

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PAN Communications
Daniel Thompson, 978-474-1900
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