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HP forger arrested in China
News In June, more than 107,000 bogus ink cartridges and accessories, including four production lines, were seized, HP said in a statement. Our co-operation with the Chinese law enforcement officials to stamp out the production and distribution of fake...
[August 15, 2002, 10:59]
Filesharing and bilesharing: a 'three-strikes' rant
Blog Mr Woodward said: "The growing threat of illegal P2P (peer to peer) file-sharing threatens [the creative industries], as films go unmade, DVD sales deteriorate and jobs are lost in production and distribution of content.
[May 12, 2009, 12:43]
Microsoft outage down to 'human error'
News First, activations and validations were both affected when pre-production code was accidentally sent to production servers," he wrote in the WGA blog. Second, while the issue affecting activations was fixed in less than 30 minutes (by rolling back...
[August 29, 2007, 13:16]
Music industry sounds off on CD burning
News It said illegal production is roughly split between large-scale manufacturing plants and small garages and laboratories. The IFPI attributed the proliferation of illegal music to organised CD-R (CD-recordable discs) piracy.
[June 12, 2002, 12:22]
Judge rules DVD-copying program is illegal
Talkback If as some of the US lawmaker want, they ban the production and sale of goods and tools used for making copies of your data, are they going to be held responcible for the loss of your data because they made it illegal for you to make copies of it...
[August 10, 2004, 13:22]
Microsoft offers to replace pirated software
News The company has created a crew of piracy-busters, dubbed the Production Identification Team, to test for forged software. Technology giant Microsoft is giving away software to those who may own pirated copies of its operating systems or...
[October 10, 2000, 15:31]
UK Web site accused over anthrax drug sales
News Foreign manufactured ciprofloxacin has not been approved or evaluated by FDA, and the manufacturing practices for production of these drug products has not been regulated by the agency to assure the drug's safety, identity, strength, quality or...
[November 5, 2001, 17:29]
Box office hits pirated over Web
News MediaForce's list "demonstrates that online movie piracy is a very real threat to the movie production industry, especially when three of our Top 10 are current, first-run production movies", said Aaron Fessler, chief executive of the company.
[July 11, 2001, 12:03]
Fake HP goods seized in China
News Being an established organisation in China, HP has been working closely with the country's law enforcement officials to stamp out the production and distribution of counterfeit products," a company spokesperson said in the statement.
[February 6, 2002, 8:59]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog As a result, the Far Eastern production lines that make these things churn out millions of identical units that can run on any standard, programming them to the restrictions of each market before shipping.
[October 6, 2006, 18:55]
Infineon busted? Play it again, DRAM
Leader Memory chips are close to being the perfect commodity: interchangeable parts and a huge demand combined with an incremental production cost of pennies make prices fluid. New chip fabrication plants cost billions and the market you expect when you...
[September 16, 2004, 12:20]
Phishing line used to sell ID cards
News Enabling powers so that future access to specified public services could be linked to production of a valid card. ID fraud is a growing crime which can ruin lives and underpin illegal activities from people trafficking to credit card fraud, from...
[May 27, 2005, 15:15]
UK P2P user? Hope you like US prison food
Blog They ran an Internet chemical supplies company selling, among other things, iodine and red phosphorus - which is perfectly legal in the UK but not in the US, where they're controlled as precursors to methamphetamine production.
[June 11, 2008, 13:19]
Malaysian minister slams software and music industries
News The industries have been given till the latter part of July to reveal to the government their production methods and costs, and to suggest a suitable price ceiling. They feel that the current prices charged for software, DVDs, CDs and video CDs...
[July 7, 2003, 9:04]
LookBack '98: Top stories of 1998 Part II
News Ten days later Diamond got the thumbs up from Judge Collins to restart its production lines and ship the Rio. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) alleged Diamond's portable Rio player infringed the Audio Home Recording Act and...
[December 25, 1998, 6:54]
Compulsory ID card scheme on course for Parliament
News More worrying for privacy campaigners is that the government will have the power after five years to make the carrying or production of ID cards compulsory. David Blunkett said in a statement that ID cards will help "tackle the challenges of the...
[November 27, 2003, 9:10]
FAST accused of indoctrinating children
News Schools would be better advised educating their pupils on the value of free speech and discussing the relative economic and practical benefits of open source and proprietary production methods than intimidating them with counter-productive...
[June 8, 2006, 16:50]
Bluetooth gets wider with WiMedia
News The first Bluetooth products with UWB are due to appear near the end of 2007 with mass production in 2008, according to the Bluetooth SIG. He confirmed that any UWB products on the market before this point would be illegal to use but legal to own.
[March 29, 2006, 17:20]
Bush urges ban on 'morphed' porn
News Prosecutors claim that such a law is needed, since otherwise it is too difficult to prove that an actual child was involved in the production of an electronic image on, say, a seized hard drive. The House passed a bill which makes it illegal for...
[October 24, 2002, 8:23]
Samsung gets massive fine for price fixing
News In addition, a glut of manufacturers and manufacturing capacity has often forced memory makers to sell their products below production costs and close factories. Today's guilty plea is evidence of the department's ongoing commitment to protect...
[October 14, 2005, 9:20]
