text: By: Brian Prince | October 21, 2008
  "One of the reasons we believe this announcement is important is it consolidates a lot of our activities in connection with our partnerships with governments, our customers and partners," said Bonnie MacNaughton, Microsoft senior attorney.
  "There is growing evidence that highly organized, transnational criminal organizations and networks are involved in the counterfeiting of software and other goods," said John Newton of the Intellectual Property Rights Project, Financial and High-Tech Crime Subdirectorate, INTERPOL General Secretariat, in a statement. "This is a global problem with global sources of supply; this is why we need to work together-the public and the private sectors-to stop this trade.
  "To that end, Microsoft and INTERPOL are now cooperating with police and customs agencies around the world to use all available intelligence to ensure that our joint investigations lead to arrests and convictions of criminal counterfeiters," he said.