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UK government minister joins pirate raids
News Further raids have also been conducted across the UK today at addresses in Barking, London, Oldham, and Blaenavon. The raids, which followed suspicions that a company called Brian Green Software had been trading in pirated goods, resulted in the...
[December 4, 2002, 16:42]
Singapore raids net pirated Windows XP
News More than 4,000 copies of Microsoft products were seized in police raids of pirated software in Singapore. Seven raids were conducted in October, across the island's heartlands like Toa Payoh, Ang Mo Kio, Marine Parade and Bedok North.
[November 9, 2001, 9:07]
Mobile phone firms hit by dawn raids
News The raids took place on Wednesday morning, and are concerned with roaming charges between mobile networks in the two countries. The European Union has raided all nine British and German mobile phone companies as part of the Union-wide investigation...
[July 11, 2001, 16:21]
EC raids smartcard firms in cartel investigation
News The raids of "several" European semiconductor companies occurred on 21 October, 2008, according to a Commission statement on Wednesday. The Commission pointed out in its statement that the fact a business was part of the surprise raids did not...
[January 7, 2009, 16:34]
AMD raids Asia resellers after fake chips found
News Advanced Micro Devices has embarked on a series of raids on regional computer resellers following the discovery of a counterfeit processor market in Asia. The report said the raids followed a month of investigation by Philippines' National Bureau...
[February 9, 2004, 7:45]
Sharman challenges raids' validity
News Lawyers representing Sharman Networks on Tuesday informed the Federal Court of Australia they intend to challenge the validity of the court order that resulted in raids at several locations across Australia last week.
[February 10, 2004, 7:25]
FBI raids ID theft suspects
Talkback We have observed the chain of eventsof information theft as it mature's. With over 200 years of backgound in the world of intelligence we have come to conclusions, with no hard evidence but using what we have learned.
[May 21, 2005, 19:15]
Students nabbed in warez raids
News The Dutch Department of Justice raided the University of Twente as part of a software piracy investigation, a school representative said on Thursday. The late-November raid, a major setback for underground "warez" groups, came just days before a...
[December 21, 2001, 10:25]
Navy raids student pirates
News The US Naval Academy has seized about 100 student computers that are suspected of containing unauthorised copies of copyrighted works. The students were in class on Thursday when the raid occurred, according to an academy representative, who would...
[November 26, 2002, 9:51]
EU raids mobile phone companies
News EU regulators raided mobile phone operators in Germany and the UK on Wednesday to collect evidence for an investigation into price fixing on mobile phone roaming charges. The European Commission said in a statement that nine mobile phone operators...
[July 11, 2001, 15:54]
Kazaa owner denied office-raid appeal
News Sharman Networks and Brilliant Digital Entertainment (BDE) have been denied application for leave to appeal the Anton Piller orders that facilitated raids on the companies' premises. In addition, BDE claimed the raids were a "very considerable...
[October 8, 2004, 12:20]
Massive paedophile operation leads to arrests
News Thirteen suspected paedophiles were arrested and 27 computers seized in police dawn raids Wednesday in the UK's largest ever police operation against child pornography on the Internet. Videos, CD-ROMs and thousands of paedophile pictures -- which...
[January 17, 2001, 13:28]
Italian telcos raided by police
News According to reports, the Italian competition authority launched raids Monday on 20 offices belonging to companies that took part in the Italian 3G auction. The raids in Rome, Milan and Turin are part of an ongoing investigation into allegations of...
[October 30, 2000, 15:38]
Software fraudsters escape raid
News Trading Standards officers seized £1.5m of counterfeit goods during raids at Wembley Market in London during November and December, the Department of Trade and Industry reported earlier this week. Brent Council, which organised the raids, said on...
[January 6, 2006, 12:30]
Has the warez battle been won?
News The informal community of Internet software pirates has been ripped apart by the recent international law-enforcement raids on many of its elite crackers, members of the shadowy scene said this week. While no raids have yet been confirmed in the...
[December 20, 2001, 11:11]
Pirate software linked with organised crime
News Counterfeit software has been linked with organised crime and drug pushing by the European Leisure Software Publishers' Association (Elspa) following a series of raids by drug investigators in the UK.
[November 23, 2000, 6:08]
Police raid software pirates
News More than 100,000 pieces of counterfeit video CDs (VCDs), CD-ROMs and DVDs were seized, and 15 men were arrested, as police launched raids on three pirate syndicates on Saturday. The raids, which involved 40 officers, lasted eight hours.
[October 15, 2001, 16:59]
Police use face-mapping tools to identify abuse victims
News The National Crime Squad (NCS) has confirmed that it will be using sophisticated facial-mapping software to identify the children depicted in 60,000 pornographic images obtained through dawn raids on suspected Internet paedophiles.
[November 28, 2001, 14:12]
Illegal WEEE and Computer recycling/ export operations raided in London!
Blog A number of raids carried out by the Environment Agency over the past months have highlighted the illegal trade in hazardous electronic and computer waste, with the majority of non-working, totally obsolete equipment being destined for Africa.
[July 14, 2009, 16:05]
Sharman search squabble drags on
News The raids followed allegations of copyright infringement made by Universal Music Australia. According to Sharman lawyers the computer is owned by Hemming's partner, but was at her house at the time of the raids.
[August 13, 2004, 14:05]
