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Selling pirated songs online nets jail term

...to six months in jail for selling hundreds of CDs full of illegally copied songs Read more

10 October, 2003 by Matt Hines

Black-market tool for Xbox mod squad

...measures built into the machine, allowing the console to play legally and illegally copied games, import titles and homebrew software. The new X-ecuter chip... Read more

8 August, 2002 by David Becker

Software pirates face ten years in jail

Government backs tougher penalties for those who deal in illegally copied material, including software, as part of a counterfeiting crackdown Read more

15 April, 2002 by Graeme Wearden

US law firm in China piracy case hit by cyberattacks

...Chinese software developers, and seven PC manufacturers. The suit alleges that they illegally copied code from Solid Oak's Cybersitter web content-filtering program and... Read more

14 January, 2010 by Elinor Mills

Cybersitter firm sues China over software piracy

...Chinese government, two Chinese software developers, and seven PC manufacturers, alleging they illegally copied code from its web content filtering program and distributed that code... Read more

6 January, 2010 by Elinor Mills

US prosecutor: Cybercrime will follow the cloud

...he said. Later on it is likely any stolen data could be illegally copied, he said. Parrella spends a lot of time prosecuting counterfeit-software... Read more

13 July, 2009 by Elinor Mills

IP infringement fines to increase tenfold

...copyright infringement be brought in line with sentences for commercial dealing in illegally copied works, which have a 10-year maximum sentence. The option of... Read more

6 May, 2009 by Tom Espiner

ISPs face renewed threat of file-sharing laws

...found that the average teenager's MP3 player contains more than 800 illegally copied songs, and separate research commissioned by the music industry body British... Read more

19 June, 2008 by Nick Heath

Architect of CAD scam faces jail

...against online sellers who "deceive end users and fuel the demand for [illegally] copied software". Walton had cracked the encryption code on AceCad's software... Read more

15 January, 2008 by Colin Barker

Book claims Bell copied telephone invention

...design of Elisha Gray, one of his greatest rivals. "Bell furtively — and illegally — copied part of Elisha Gray's invention in the race to secure... Read more

27 December, 2007 by Richard Thurston

Symantec sues over counterfeit software

...Wednesday that it has filed lawsuits against eight software distributors, alleging they illegally copied the company's software. The security and storage management software maker... Read more

17 May, 2007 by Dawn Kawamoto

Microsoft makes peace with Indonesia

...55p) for each of its 50,000 PCs thought to be running illegally copied Windows software. As no records exist of which machines are running... Read more

9 June, 2005 by Cath Everett
Alphatec Watermarking Suite 1.0

Alphatec Watermarking Suite 1.0

...he can examine whether a given file, which is suspected for being illegally copied, contains his own watermark (id_number) and use it as legal... Read more

6 September, 2004

SCO rules out further court cases

...community with its claim that its proprietary Unix source code has been illegally copied into the Linux kernel, won't be launching any more lawsuits... Read more

4 August, 2004 by Graeme Wearden

US fights to extradite Internet 'pirate'

...sought. According to the office of the US attorney, the group DrinkorDie illegally copied and distributed more than $50m worth of pirated software, movies, games... Read more

8 July, 2004 by Kristyn Maslog Levis

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