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Is stealing software different from stealing hardware?

...company stole the PCs it used to run its business (RAM raiding, shoplifting, breaking and entering or credit card fraud - take your pick), it would... Read more

6 October, 2010
UK Crime 1.0

UK Crime 1.0

...Other crime: All other crime reported to the police including criminal damage, shoplifting and drug offences Read more

22 July, 2011
A Low Power-Long Range Active RFID-System Consisting of Active RFID Backscatter Transponders

A Low Power-Long Range Active RFID-System Consisting of Active RFID Backscatter Transponders

...ineffective, and even having impact on sales. A global survey shows that shoplifting was seen as the major problem that retailers faced 2009, accounting for... Read more

19 June, 2010

Retailers warned of 'digital shoplifting

...and do business may be much more drastic than many realise. "Digital shoplifting" using mobile phones will become enough of a problem for retailers and... Read more

23 March, 2004 by Iain Ferguson

Japanese want to stamp out 'digital shoplifting

...publication back on the shelf. The incensed bookstore owners call this "digital shoplifting" and the Japanese Magazine Publishers Association wants it stopped, according to the... Read more

1 July, 2003 by CNET Asia Staff

Lasting impression - downloading is illegal

...equates the downloading of files from the Internet with "piracy," "stealing" and "shoplifting." The pervasive theme of copyspeak is that downloading from the Internet is... Read more

30 September, 2002 by Gary Shapiro

Rupert Goodwins' Diary

...to have done. "Certainly if an individual was stopped and accused of shoplifting after walking out of Neiman Marcus, they would expect to be eventually... Read more

30 June, 2006

Rupert Goodwins' Diary

...to have done. "Certainly if an individual was stopped and accused of shoplifting after walking out of Neiman Marcus, they would expect to be eventually... Read more

30 June, 2006 by Rupert Goodwins

Microsoft adds RFID to stock management software

...Procter & Gamble are experimenting with using RFID systems in stores to prevent shoplifting and to monitor stock on the shelf. Microsoft's software will now... Read more

26 January, 2004 by Marguerite Reardon

Software firm tracks RFID tags

...labour-intensive manual inventory scanning and tackle perennial business problems such as shoplifting, inventory shortages and logistical errors. Manugistics -- which competes with i2 Technologies, Oracle... Read more

28 October, 2003 by Alorie Gilbert

Workplaces 'should ban camera phones'

...pictures of magazines with their camera-phones, a trend they termed "digital shoplifting". Korean authorities are reportedly mulling a law which makes it mandatory for... Read more

22 October, 2003 by Staff

E-tills ring out for Internet Shopping Day

...Man, fears that Internet Shopping Day might turn out to be Internet Shoplifting Day. He believes while consumers may be the victims of people defrauding... Read more

24 July, 2003 by Jo Best

Camera-phone makers ban own products

...pictures of magazines with their camera-phones, a trend they termed "digital shoplifting". To address the problem, Korea's Ministry of Information and Communication is... Read more

8 July, 2003 by Staff

'Honest Thief' waves pirate flag

...decision is being appealed to higher court. "Call it file-sharing or shoplifting, here in Holland we call it good business," Pieter Plass, founder of... Read more

24 February, 2003 by Sandeep Junnarkar

Internet a 'moral-free zone', warns media chief

...stall tactics and smoke screens of those who have purposely ignored digital shoplifting can no longer be tolerated and can no longer mask the ulterior... Read more

21 August, 2002 by Declan McCullagh

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