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Driving with the Devil: Southern Moonshine, Detroit Wheels, and the Birth of NASCAR by Neal Thompson 3.0.2

Driving with the Devil: Southern Moonshine, Detroit Wheels, and the Birth of NASCAR by Neal Thompson 3.0.2

...the farm or factory, the best chance of escape was running moonshine. Bootlegging offered speed, adventure, and wads of cashif the drivers survived. Driving with... Read more

26 August, 2010

Will the real Eminem CD please stand up?

...sobering look at the changing patterns of Internet piracy and traditional music bootlegging. Gracenote maintains a huge online database that can identify CDs by calling... Read more

29 May, 2002 by John Borland

Bootlegging: The dark side of the Force

When bootlegged snippets of music and movies make their way online before they've even been officially released, legitimate copyright holders stand to lose a whole lot of money. Read more

4 May, 1999 by Maria Seminerio

DivXNetworks gives piracy the boot

DivXNetworks is moving away from its bootlegging past and into legal compression formats for movies Read more

6 February, 2002 by Gwendolyn Mariano

A: Blu-Ray, B: HD-DVD, C: none of the above

...and their pals isn't piracy, peer-to-peer file transfer or bootlegging. It's their own arrogance and contempt for their customers. It's... Read more

22 August, 2007

Rupert Goodwins' Diary

...won't be far behind. Not that this always works: as a bootlegging photographer of my acquaintance points out, very few of these people know... Read more

23 January, 2004 by Rupert Goodwins

Rupert Goodwins' Diary

...won't be far behind. Not that this always works: as a bootlegging photographer of my acquaintance points out, very few of these people know... Read more

23 January, 2004

Can Bertelsmann stop CD copying?

...trading sites to legal alternatives. "Intellectual property is at risk from rampant bootlegging, file sharing and CD burning, and music is only the first medium... Read more

9 April, 2002 by Jim Hu

Dimitry Sklyarov: Enemy or friend?

...encrypt only their own documents. Since there isn't much potential for bootlegging of the industrial reports they sell, they probably don't lose anything... Read more

2 August, 2001 by Bruce Perens

BSA offers £10,000 bounty for software pirates

...house, has launched a variety of initiatives to stamp out own software bootlegging. In the UK, it says it will replace illegitimate software with the... Read more

3 November, 2000 by Will Knight

RealNetworks: Keep e-music simple, stupid!

...s efforts to control downloadable music may be fueling the frenzy for bootlegging software like Napster, RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser said Wednesday. It's a... Read more

25 May, 2000 by Marilynn Wheeler
Streets of SimCity demo

Streets of SimCity demo

...also take on opponents in an urban free-for-all while skidding, bootlegging, and blasting away. Speed through sprawling roadways or tackle one of the... Read more

26 March, 1998
Chicago Underground

Chicago Underground

...of the prohibition era and the battle for control over the lucrative bootlegging business has spilled onto the streets. As chief enforcer for mafia boss... Read more

28 September, 2008
Chicago Underground

Chicago Underground

...of the prohibition era and the battle for control over the lucrative bootlegging business has spilled onto the streets. As chief enforcer for mafia boss... Read more

25 September, 2008

Anti-plagiarism tech traps cheating students

...50,000 university applications last year because of rising numbers of students bootlegging material for the personal statement section of the form. Although Ucas has... Read more

1 October, 2007 by Andy McCue

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@apexwm Have you considered either (a) reading the story above or (b) reading the PDF? There are answers in both.

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