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Article | 30/06/2006 Two men sentenced to prison on 'warez' charges
Two US men have been sentenced to prison terms for their participation in online software piracy, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced late We...
Article | 19/06/2006 Web site operator pleads guilty to piracy
BuysUSA.com's owner pleaded guilty to selling nearly US$20 million worth of pirated software through the mail, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) sa...
Article | 25/05/2006 Former US school official arrested for E-Rate fraud
A former assistant superintendent at a Michigan school has been arrested, along with his wife, on charges of fraud involving US$7.3 million obtained f...
Article | 24/05/2006 Study: Software piracy rate remains the same in 2005
Thirty-five percent of the packaged software installed on PCs worldwide in 2005 was pirated, the same percentage as in 2004, according to a study rele...
Article | 22/05/2006 Three sentenced for 'warez' activities
Three US men have been sentenced to jail or home confinement for their participation in so-called warez online piracy groups, the US Department of Jus...
Article | 16/05/2006 Supreme Court sides with eBay in patent case
The U.S. Supreme Court has set aside a lower court decision to stop eBay from using a prominent feature on its Web site because of a patent dispute.
Article | 8/05/2006 Yahoo faces class-action spyware, ad sales suit
An antispyware activist and lawyer has filed a class-action lawsuit against Yahoo, accusing the Web heavyweight of placing advertisements on spyware-v...
Article | 28/04/2006 Five face charges for 'warez' piracy
Five U.S. residents face criminal copyright charges for their alleged participation in the online "warez" file-trading community, the U.S. Department ...
Article | 20/04/2006 Group: Yahoo help leads to another dissident arrest
A media rights group has identified a third dissident who the Chinese government arrested based on information apparently supplied by a Yahoo subsidia...
Article | 20/04/2006 Group urges governments to do more to fight spam
Governments need to pass more antispam laws, give law enforcement agencies more resources and work better across borders to combat unsolicited e-mail ...
Article | 12/04/2006 China to toughen stance on software piracy
Chinese government officials have committed to increased protections for intellectual property such as software, saying they will step up criminal enf...
Article | 4/04/2006 US man sentenced for using chat room to solicit minors
A Pennsylvania man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for attempting to use a chat room to solicit sex with minors, the U.S. Department of Justi...
Article | 27/03/2006 Marketer hit with US$900,000 spam fine
An Internet marketer will pay a US$900,000 fine, the largest ever on spam-related charges, in a consent decree announced last Thursday by the U.S. Fed...
Article | 24/03/2006 Four indicted in Nigerian e-mail scam
Four people have been indicted and could face 30 years in prison for a variation on a popular scam in which e-mail senders claim they're trying to tra...
Article | 23/03/2006 Samsung execs plead guilty to DRAM price fixing
Three executives from Samsung Electronics Co., the largest manufacturer of DRAM (dynamic random access memory), have agreed to plead guilty and serve ...

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