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InternetNews October 13, 2006 Roy Mark |
Feds Bust Craigslist Software Pirates Three alleged software pirates face criminal copyright infringement charges for selling illegal copies of popular software titles on Craigslist. |
InternetNews August 4, 2005 Roy Mark |
Camcording Warez Dealer Bagged by Feds The Department of Justice announces its first arrests under a new law prohibiting recording movies in a theater. |
InternetNews September 17, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas |
Feds Seize $87M in Counterfeit Software Sting Biggest-ever haul includes phonied Microsoft, Adobe and Symantec products. |
InternetNews August 25, 2004 Roy Mark |
DOJ Raids Private P2P Operation Authorities raided five residences and and an Internet service provider Wednesday morning in the first federal criminal enforcement action against private peer-to-peer networks. |
InternetNews July 28, 2005 Roy Mark |
Warez Warriors Wrapped Up by Feds The Department of Justice's (DoJ) crackdown on large-scale piracy continued today with the indictments of eight individuals for criminal copyright infringement. The individuals were active in the online 'warez' scene. |
InternetNews August 26, 2004 Roy Mark |
FBI Sting Targets P2P Operation DOJ launches first peer-to-peer criminal probe by targeting a network of Direct Connect users. |
BusinessWeek May 15, 2006 Roger O. Crockett |
Hauling In The Hollywood Hackers How undercover FBI agents nab the bootleggers who threaten the movie biz. |
PC World December 13, 2001 Todd R. Weiss |
Feds Crack Software Piracy Rings Two-year probe targeted international groups illegally distributing software, games, and movies online... |
InternetNews October 13, 2005 Roy Mark |
Feds Bust Massive Piracy Scheme A federal grand jury indicted three San Francisco-area men Wednesday for their involvement in what the music industry calls the largest illegal CD manufacturing seizure in the United States. |
InternetNews December 31, 2008 Andy Patrizio |
China Jails Multibillion-Dollar Piracy Ring And Microsoft understandably couldn't be happier. |
InternetNews May 14, 2007 Roy Mark |
'Fastlink' Downs 50th Conspirator Feds continue law enforcement campaign targeting warez groups. |
InternetNews November 4, 2004 Roy Mark |
MPAA Targets Movie Downloaders The Motion Picture Association of America plans to begin filing copyright theft lawsuits Nov. 16 against users of peer-to-peer networks who illegally trade movies over the file-swapping networks. |
BusinessWeek April 7, 2011 Michael White |
Hollywood: Organized Crime Goes to the Movies International gangs are cornering the market for pirated DVDs. |
InternetNews October 8, 2009 |
FBI Holds Its Own Phish Phry Fed crackdown nets the largest number of defendants ever charged in a cyber crime scam. |
InternetNews March 29, 2007 Roy Mark |
Two Years For Midwest Counterfeiter A 36-year-old Indiana man was sentenced today to more than two years in prison for selling counterfeit Rockwell Automation software on eBay. |
InternetNews September 11, 2006 Ed Sutherland |
Software Pirate Fined, Going to Jail A California man was sentenced to 87 months, or more than seven years, in prison and ordered to repay $5.4 million in what federal prosecutors called the largest U.S. software piracy operation. |
InternetNews September 30, 2010 |
FBI Busts International Cybercrime Syndicate After a year-long investigation, the FBI and local law enforcement charges 37 hackers with using Zeus Trojan to steal more than $3 million from U.S. banks. |
InternetNews November 24, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas |
Brits Get Replacements for Phony XP Microsoft will swap out phony copies of Windows XP for the real thing, but only in the U.K. |
InternetNews December 27, 2004 Colin C. Haley |
Microsoft Cheers Anti-Counterfeiting Law The measure takes aim at fake labels on software. The anti-counterfeiting bill is one of several signed by President Bush. |
PC Magazine December 28, 2004 Sebastian Rupley |
Making Movies, Taking Movies Lawsuits are coming for people trading films online. |
InternetNews September 28, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
Symantec and Microsoft Bring Down Pirate Anti-piracy efforts catch a scammer who created counterfeit copies of Symantec and Microsoft software. |
InternetNews December 14, 2005 Roy Mark |
Software Pirate Set For April Sentencing Feds bust the largest for-profit software piracy site ever shut down by the government. |
InternetNews January 14, 2010 |
eBay Software Pirate Gets Jail Time A federal judge sends one crook up the river, but it's a drop in the bucket when it comes to the massive amount of piracy claimed by the software industry. |
BusinessWeek July 14, 2003 Ronald Grover |
Tinseltown's Aim: To Catch a Thief Hollywood is in full crackdown mode for crooks who pilfer films by recording them at premieres and press screenings. |
The Motley Fool January 5, 2004 W.D. Crotty |
Not-So-Scary Movie Does piracy threaten the movie studios? Not just yet. |
InternetNews November 26, 2008 Richard Adhikari |
ID Thieves Hit Federal Credit Unions, Consumers Sophisticated crooks are charged with filching funds from credit unions for the Senate, Navy and State Department while stealing millions from consumers' home equity lines of credit. |
Entrepreneur June 2007 Gwen Moran |
It's a Fake! Learn how to steer clear of counterfeit merchandise. |
Chemistry World December 11, 2014 |
Freedom Industries' president arrested for fraud Gary Southern's arrest followed a criminal complaint from the FBI, which accuses him of making numerous false statements about his role at Freedom and his knowledge of conditions at the facility where the leak occurred. |
InternetNews November 17, 2004 Roy Mark |
Software Gives Parents Chance to Snoop The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) will release free software that allow parents a peek into their kids' computers for 'illegal files' and the programs that download them. It also filed lawsuits against movie file-swappers. |
CFO June 1, 2008 Randy Myers |
Counter Attack As phony goods flood the market, companies fight to protect their brands. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency blames counterfeit merchandise for the loss of more than 750,000 American jobs. |
PC Magazine November 16, 2005 Nicole Price Fasig |
Film Fracas The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) is getting more serious about Internet trading of copyrighted films. |
InternetNews May 24, 2005 Roy Mark |
House Closes Counterfeiting Loopholes The U.S. House voted to close two loopholes in federal law that allow counterfeiters to avoid prosecution and profit from illegal activities. |
Reason April 2008 Brian Doherty |
Mint Condition In November the FBI raided the Indiana offices of the company that sells the privately minted metal coins known as Liberty Dollars. |
CIO April 15, 2003 Sarah D. Scalet |
The Pirates Among Us The entertainment industry is battling the illegal distribution of copyrighted music and movie files -- and will stop at nothing to enlist your help. |
Home Theater May 15, 2006 Darryl Wilkinson |
McGruff, the DVD-Sniffing, Anti-Piracy Crime Dog FedEx and HM Revenue & Customs partnered in the UK to run the first major live test of using DVD-sniffing dogs to identify counterfeit DVDs concealed amongst other goods. |
InternetNews March 13, 2009 Alex Goldman |
Federal CIO Kundra on Leave After FBI Raid Vivek Kundra, who President Obama officially named as federal Chief Information Officer just eight days ago, is now on a leave of absence following an FBI investigation into his former workplace, according to reports. |
Salon.com August 4, 2000 Daryl Lindsey |
"Hollering fire in a crowded theater" The FBI's chief negotiator during the Waco siege says critics and conspiracy theorists are sowing dangerous discord. |
InternetNews February 23, 2006 Roy Mark |
California Tightens Anti-Piracy Laws California tightened its anti-piracy screws Wednesday when it enacted a new law lowering the felony threshold to 100 counterfeit CDs. Previously, the threshold for a felony copyright violation was 1,000 copies. |
InternetNews September 19, 2005 Tim Gray |
Microsoft Sues 8 Resellers Over Fakes Microsoft has filed separate lawsuits against eight of its resellers for allegedly passing off counterfeit copies of its software through distribution channels. |
Home Theater April 20, 2010 Mark Fleischmann |
RIAA, MPAA Demand Spyware Invasive anti-piracy methods would detect illegal downloads. |
Salon.com May 12, 2001 Alicia Montgomery & Fiona Morgan |
Botched! "If the government can't get it right in this case, how can we rely on it to get it right in any case?" Experts react to the FBI blunder... |
PC Magazine September 26, 2007 Alison Lapp |
The Fake Software Empire An FBI sting uncovered a vast network for phony software, but there's more at risk than Microsoft losing money. |
InternetNews April 11, 2005 Jim Wagner |
Microsoft in Dealer Crackdown The Redmond giant files suits against eight PC retailers for selling bogus copies of Windows software. |
InternetNews June 15, 2005 Jim Wagner |
Microsoft Software Piracy Crackdown Continues Microsoft again went on the offensive with lawsuits against software pirates. |
InternetNews October 31, 2006 Ed Sutherland |
Microsoft's Counterfeit Auction Dragnet In its largest effort so far, Microsoft said it filed suit against 50 online dealers who used eBay and other Internet auction sites to sell counterfeit products to unaware consumers and businesses. |
Salon.com August 23, 2001 Amita Guha |
Fingered by the movie cops Under today's digital copyright laws, you are guilty until proven innocent. I know -- it happened to me... |
InternetNews April 13, 2009 David Needle |
Software Pirates Look Familiar Business Software Alliance shows confessional videos of people, including a grandmother, arrested for selling counterfeit software. |
BusinessWeek May 30, 2005 |
Meet Cyberspace's Head Fed Nailing the Internet's most wanted takes a combination of tech wizardry and good, old-fashioned police work. |
Entrepreneur June 2006 Jane Easter Bahls |
Hitting Hard Piracy laws just got tougher. |
U.S. Banker June 2009 Davies & Marquez-Garrett |
Financial Misconduct Is Not Just a Civil Matter The FBI is shifting more than $75 million in resources from counterterrorism work to help sort through what has been characterized as "the wreckage of the financial meltdown," and financial industry professionals are bracing themselves for the newest wave of recourse: criminal prosecution. |