Recently Microsoft released a list of all the lawsuits they currently have against computer businesses selling pirate Microsoft software.

On the Microsoft Genuine Software Initiative Home Page, a site set up to be a scare tactic they mention that in the US in the years 2005 to 2006 they had 52 police raids, 97 lawsuits, 32859 computers seized to the value of $23,668,747. 73,519 Auction takedowns and 5,226 website takedowns.

You can view the list of the court cases and the business names of the pirates Here.

The various businesses have been caught out by Microsoft responding to leads to their piracy hotline 1-800-RU-LEGIT and then Microsoft gathers evidence by sending a “secret shopper” for a test purchase to test the authenticity of the software.