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Reason July 2009 Jacob Sullum |
Drug Control Begets Gun Control The violence in Mexico is caused by prohibition, not firearms. |
BusinessWeek July 22, 2010 Dina Bass |
Microsoft Crosses Swords with Pirates Microsoft employs digital forensics and other technologies to help law-enforcement authorities bust counterfeiter syndicates. |
BusinessWeek April 7, 2011 Michael White |
Hollywood: Organized Crime Goes to the Movies International gangs are cornering the market for pirated DVDs. |
BusinessWeek August 26, 2010 Jens Erik Gould |
In Mexico, a Call to Legalize Drugs Mexico is publicly debating the idea of legalizing drug use to weaken the cartels. It would be an effective step only if the U.S. did the same. |
InternetNews October 4, 2004 Roy Mark |
U.S. Launches New Anti-Piracy Campaign U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick says Internet and sophisticated duplication technology have taken piracy to unprecedented levels. |
BusinessWeek February 7, 2005 |
Uniting Business to Fight Fakes Vivendi's Jean-Rene Fourtou, former International Chamber of Commerce head, talks about a new coordinated counteroffensive against counterfeiting. |
PC Magazine August 3, 2005 Sebastian Rupley |
Global Piracy Factories CD-burning factories, street sales of pirated CDs, and many other avenues for pirates constitute a big problem, with the top ten countries where piracy is at unacceptable levels are Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Pakistan, Paraguay, Russia, Spain, and Ukraine. |
InternetNews December 31, 2008 Andy Patrizio |
China Jails Multibillion-Dollar Piracy Ring And Microsoft understandably couldn't be happier. |
IndustryWeek January 11, 2012 |
Managing Security and Violence in Mexico Drug-related violence has U.S. manufacturers reviewing their strategies for operating in Mexico. |
Entrepreneur June 2006 Jane Easter Bahls |
Hitting Hard Piracy laws just got tougher. |
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 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. |
National Defense July 2008 Stew Magnuson |
Contentious Debate Over Border Fences Won't End Soon Dormant as a national issue until late 2005, securing the southern border suddenly became an intensely debated subject and a political hot potato. |
BusinessWeek March 21, 2005 |
Are Los Dos Amigos On The Outs? Relations between Mexico and the U.S. are strained in the runup to a meeting by the leaders of the three members of the North American Free Trade Agreement. |
InternetNews May 4, 2006 David Miller |
RIAA Targets Piracy 'Hot-Spot' Cities The recording-industry group identifies 12 U.S. cities where counterfeiters are thriving. |
InternetNews September 14, 2010 |
Microsoft Tweaks Licensing for Advocacy Groups Microsoft on Monday moved swiftly to address what a New York Times report said was a case of Russian authorities cracking down on dissenting groups in the name of fighting software piracy. |
Popular Mechanics April 1, 2010 Joe Pappalardo |
Mexico Turns to U.S. Private Sector for Drug-Busting Technology Why wait for U.S. government money? Mexico shops on its own to improve its army and police forces, and finds that American companies deliver faster than Uncle Sam. |
InternetNews May 12, 2009 Kenneth Corbin |
BSA: Software Industry Lost $53B to Piracy in 2008 Industry group warns of escalating losses from unlicensed software. |
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. |
CIO July 1, 2005 Elana Varon |
$33 Billion-Gone! 35% of all software installed on the world's personal computers is pirated, according to a global study. |
InternetNews November 2, 2007 Stuart J. Johnston |
Website, Lawsuits Take Aim at Pirates Microsoft opens a new site to educate users on how to spot illicit software, and also sues 20 alleged vendors for selling pirated copies of its software. |
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 June 30, 2005 Roy Mark |
DOJ Hits Warez Networks Federal agents launch 70 raids aimed at first providers of illegally distributed copyrighted works. The arrested were all active on warez networks that distribute the copies illegally through the Internet. |
InternetNews March 9, 2005 Roy Mark |
Feds Bag Warez Convictions Key leaders of Internet piracy rings face prison sentences of 5 to 10 years. |
InternetNews July 18, 2006 Ed Sutherland |
Microsoft v. Pirates: 26 New Lawsuits Filed Microsoft filed suit against more than two dozen companies charged with loading pirated software on computers they sold. |
InternetNews January 26, 2010 |
SIIA Ups the Ante on Payouts to Piracy Snitches Software trade group pays out record rewards to reel in pirates. |
AskMen.com |
Crime Down In 2008: FBI Violent crime, property crime, murder and manslaughter all dropped in 2008. But there were some increases, too. |
InternetNews March 9, 2006 Clint Boulton |
Microsoft's Piracy Fight Takes a New Road Microsoft, whose products are among the most pirated in the world, created the Genuine Software Initiative to protect its consumers and resellers from bogus software. |
On Wall Street October 1, 2010 Milton Ezrati |
Despite Violence, Mexico's Economy Begins to Improve Despite terrible problems, once the U.S. recovery begins to create jobs, remittances from Mexican nationals working north of the border will begin to add marginal momentum to Mexico's economic growth and, hence, to its market prospects. |
InternetNews July 28, 2010 |
Most Data Breaches Perpetrated by Cyber Gangs Organized crime syndicates, many of them based or operated from outside the U.S., are overwhelmingly to blame for coordinated cyber attacks, according to a study by Verizon and the U.S. Secret Service. |
Fast Company John Paul Titlow |
And The Awards For The Most Illegally Downloaded Oscar Movies Go To... Piracy remains a challenge for the film industry, whose wares make up a significant portion of illegal downloads overall. |
InternetNews June 29, 2006 Roy Mark |
More Warez Dealers Head to Jail Operation FastLink, the two-year-old FBI undercover investigation targeting organized Internet piracy groups known as warez dealers, claimed two more pirates Wednesday. |
Fast Company Ciara Byrne |
Drugs, Guns, And Selfies: Gangs On Social Media It turns out that the gangs, being young men, are very active on social media. |
Popular Mechanics February 18, 2010 Tyghe Trimble |
Can Sophisticated Mathematical Models Help Police Fight Crime? Is it possible to predict crimes from studying human behavior? A new paper from researchers at the University of California shows how mathematical modeling may soon lead to truly predictive police work. |
On Wall Street January 1, 2009 Milton Ezrati |
With the U.S. in Turmoil, Mexico Doesn't Follow Suit Mexico is less vulnerable to changes in the U.S. economy than it once was, and has proven more resilient than many had expected. |
Reason April 2004 Anderson & Jackson |
Washington's Biggest Crime Problem The federal government's ever-expanding criminal code is an affront to justice and the Constitution. |
InternetNews January 27, 2010 |
Comcast Signals More Active Role in Piracy Fight With the nation's leading cable ISP on the verge of joining with NBC Universal, questions arise for the company's plans on combating piracy. |
InternetNews August 25, 2006 Roy Mark |
Man Pays For Piracy With Jail Time In addition to jail time, Danny Ferrer faces $4.1M in restitution and forfeiture of a fleet of planes, boats and really nice cars for selling pirated software. |
InternetNews November 2, 2009 |
Software Pirate Gets 41 Months in Prison Virginia man incarcerated after years of selling phony Adobe software apps on eBay for years. |
Bank Technology News March 2011 Shane Kite |
AML and Human Trafficking Governments have therefore tried to help both AML vendors and banks spot potential human trafficking patterns in the money nexus to aid in stemming the crime and in prosecuting its alleged purveyors. |
InternetNews May 13, 2010 Larry Barrett |
Software Pirates Swipe Billions in Booty New figures from the Business Software Alliance finds that while software piracy has leveled off in the U.S., the trade of stolen or counterfeit software is still booming. |