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• New Porn Group to Tackle Piracy

  Published: July 20, 2007, 1:32 pm

  Tags: Legal Issues, Articles, News, Adult Entertainment, Content Theft, Copyright Infringement, File Sharing, Gapa, P2p, Piracy, Plagiarism, Porn

  industry was using “piracy” to its advantage and, despite adult content making up the bulk of file sharing, was a thriving industry. However, that may change soon. A new organization, The Global Anti-Piracy Agency (GAPA), has been founded by Sureflixx Digital Distribution “with the singular mission of working on behalf of

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• In Brief: YouTube getting digital fingerprinting anti-piracy ...

  Published: July 27, 2007, 1:55 pm

  Tags: Home Entertainment, Piracy, Software, Youtube

  YouTube getting digital fingerprinting anti-piracy tools in September; bye bye Daily Show clips. [Techspot]

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• DC Local Items: Movie Crime and Shark Attacks

  Published: August 2, 2007, 3:17 pm

  Tags: Attribution, Dc Local, Dclocal, Gilbert Arenas, Gilbertarenas, Good Stealing, Goodstealing, Piracy, Tolerated Use, Tolerateduse

  I'm not a fan of movie piracy, this does not seem to be best move for the movie industry. Especially the part where she's banned for life from the theater, which doesn't really help the part about declining movie theater attendance, does it?* What about landsharks? Heard this on the Sports Junkies radio show this morning: Washington Wizards

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• 19 Year-Old Arrested, Charged for Recording 20 Seconds of 'Transformers'

  Published: August 3, 2007, 7:01 am

  Tags: Jhannet Sejas, Jhannetsejas, Movie Piracy, Moviepiracy, Piracy, Transformers

  say that the fear of movie piracy has officially gone too far. On July 17th, Marymount University sophomore Jhannet Sejas (pictured) was celebrating her 19th birthday with her boyfriend at a screening of Transformers. Sejas, a Bolivian immigrant working two part-time jobs to support her education, was loving the flick. She wanted to show her

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• New Author Group Targets Piracy

  Published: August 7, 2007, 12:47 pm

  Tags: Prevention, Articles, News, Content Theft, Copyright, Copyright Infringement, Ebooks, P2p, Pdf, Piracy, Plagiarism, Publishers, Publishing

  “Authors Against Piracy” The invite-only group is targeted at published authors to discuss “how authors and publishers can prevent electronic publications from being freely distributed by software pirates and pirate Web sites.” If you wish to join this group, you need to contact Maria and introduce yourself, being

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• CyberCops: NetEnforcers, Your Online Rent-a-Cops

  Published: August 8, 2007, 12:45 pm

  Tags: Crime, Cybercops, Netenforcer, Online, Piracy

  gray market goods, piracy and any other evil schemes that Corporate America is afraid of but reluctant to enforce with its own personnel. Of course, NetEnforcers are only upholding the law, so we can't hold them accountable for laws that we may not like. Also, intellectual property rights are important. For example, there are a lot of

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• Rag Trade: 'Teen Vogue' And Rachel Zoe: A Match Made In Purge-atory

  Published: August 9, 2007, 10:00 am

  Tags: Acquascutum, Barneys, Budget Shopping, Dolce Amp Gabbana, Elena Fishman, Faux Wasp, Gender Equality, Glenn Mcmahon, Istithmar, Kate Moss, Longchamp, Orin Hatch, Piracy, Politics Of Style, Polo Ralph Lauren, Rachel Zoe, Rag Trade, St John, Teen Vogue

  We always wondered why Rachel Zoe and Teen Vogue's self-promoting interns had never joined forces before. They're like the peanut butter and jelly of DANTE'S INFERNO, after all. Current intern Elana... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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• Fab Flash: Senate Bill Targets Knockoffs

  Published: August 9, 2007, 2:20 pm

  Tags: Fab Flash, Forever 21, Copyright, Fashion, Design Piracy Prohibition Act

  Schumer presented his Design Piracy Prohibition Act, which aims to protect original fashion designs for three years after they are registered with the U.S. Copyright Office. Current law only protects creative [...] Related Entries: Canada’s Kyoto constitutional crisisFashion Targets Breast Cancer tees from top designers at

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• Rag Trade: Teri Hatcher: The Annoying New Face Of Badgley Mischka

  Published: August 15, 2007, 10:00 am

  Tags: Badgley Mischka, Bergdorf Goodman, Design Piracy Act, High School Musical, Kara Janx, Lauren Goldstein Crowe, Neiman Marcus, Panama Hats, Project Runway, Rag Trade, Siouxsie Sioux, Teri Hatcher, Trench Coats, Urban Outfitters

  Teri Hatcher replaces the Olsens as the chief endorser of scary-big overwrought dresses. Can she go back to selling phone service or whatever? She was so convincing in that role. [WWD, sub... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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• Mexican Raids Net 15,000 Counterfeit Nintendo Products

  Published: August 17, 2007, 10:48 pm

  Tags: Nintendo, Counterfeit, Crack, Globe, Guadalajara, Honestly, Latin American Market, Law Enforcement, Mexican Government, Mexico, Nintendo Products, Nintendo Wii Games, Piracy, Pirate Operations, Realistic, Statistics

  but also a place where piracy is running out of control according to the company. Nintendo has worked hard with law enforcement around the globe this year to crack down on pirate operations. Today, Nintendo teamed up with the Mexican government and seized over 15,000 counterfeit Nintendo products including approximately 4,500 Nintendo Wii

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• 'Simpsons' Piracy Issue Down Under

  Published: August 19, 2007, 11:06 am

  Tags: Australia, Cinematical, Film, Movie, Piracy, Simpsons

  newsworthy aspect of this piracy, however, is the country where it originated: Australia this time. Twentieth Century Fox traced the source of an illegal online version of the film to a man in Sydney, and had him charged with copyright infringement. The video pirate worked fast: the version was discovered within 72 hours of the animated film's

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• DVD-sniffing dogs awarded medals, returning to NYC

  Published: August 20, 2007, 2:05 pm

  Tags: Crime, Dvd Counterfeiting, Dvdcounterfeiting, Flo, Lucky, Malaysia, New York City, Newyorkcity, Piracy

  "take a bite out of movie piracy in the Big Apple," according to the Motion Picture Association's Edward Neurbronner -- that is, when they're not busy putting on little, um, dog-and-pony shows at local events. Well we certainly wish you guys luck as you begin your new career battling piracy stateside (and later on in Canada, apparently another

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• Linux user forced to use Windows as part of home confinement

  Published: August 24, 2007, 2:53 pm

  Tags: Crime, Criminal, Government, Internet, Linux, Piracy, Software, Torrent, Track, Tracking, Usa, Windows

  Filed under: DesktopsIf you think doing five months of hard time in the slammer for uploading a feature film to the internet is tough, try using Windows for nearly half a year when your heart belongs to Linux. Unfortunately, this heartbreaking scenario is indeed true, as the "ex-administrator of the EliteTorrents BitTorrent tracker" is now being

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• Director's Guild Just Says 'No' to Screeners

  Published: August 25, 2007, 11:03 am

  Tags: Dga Awards, Dgaawards, Director S Guild Of America, Director Sguildofamerica, Piracy, Screeners

  Filed under: Awards, Newsstand, Movie MarketingFor the second time in as many years, the Director's Guild of America, which represents not only directors but unit production managers and assistant directors, has said no to the Hollywood studio's policy of for-consideration screeners being mailed to its members for the 60th annual Director's Guild

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• DS Save Game Transfer System For Windows Coming

  Published: August 28, 2007, 2:01 pm

  Tags: Nintendo Ds, Gamebrink, Games, Gametech, New Product, Nintendo Ds, Oh Crap, Piracy, Save Game Transfer, This Picture, User News

  Gametech is releasing a new product on 08/31/2007 that will allow you to easily dump and share your DS save games. When I first saw this picture I thought, “oh crap DS piracy just went to a whole new level”, but thankfully the top left translates to save data. More Pics Here

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