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  • Counterfeiting slashing AU business software profits: Report

    Counterfeiting cost the business software industry in Australia around AU$155 million in lost profits in 2002, according to a new report prepared by the Allen Consulting Group.

  • Microsoft sends AU$1.86 million message to counterfeiters

    Microsoft was awarded AU$1.86 million worth of damages and injunctions last week, concluding a long-going software piracy court battle with Sydney electronics wholesaler TYN Electronics.

  • Symantec wins US$3 million in counterfeit-ware suit

    Security software maker Symantec won a US$3 million judgment against one of America's more famous spammers after a court ruled that Maryland Internet Marketing was selling counterfeit Symantec applications.

  • Rip an MP3 - go to jail for ten years

    From this week, if you live in the UK, you can be sent to jail for up to ten years for making, dealing with or using illicit recordings -- a longer sentence than is expected for convicted murderers, rapists or even paedophiles.

  • First legal blitz launched against UK music sharers

    The UK music industry is launching a broadside at file-sharers in this country for the first time - trade body the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) is suing 28 people thought to be responsible for uploading music illegally.

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    What if you could download an MP3 file, photo, or video game demo from a simple bar code printed in the newspaper? For months now, 10 million readers of a Japanese daily newspaper have done just that.

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