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Harvard placekicker Anders Blewett took a direct snap during a botched field goal try as the clock expired in the first half. The stunned Blewett tucked the ball and ran a naked bootleg left into the endzone. The only problem—the clock had already run out on the half and the play was whistled dead...
...laughs Jace Clayton ’97, a.k.a. DJ /rupture, “so I’m incredibly picky about buying records.” Thanks to the Internet, though, /rupture has quickly become a household name among fans of bleeding-edge dance music. His bootleg mix album Gold Teeth Thief, which met universal acclaim last year in staple publications such as The Wire and Vibe, has been downloaded by thousands from /rupture’s Soot Records website (www.negrophonic.com). Some consider it one of the best DJ mix albums ever made...
China has long had a reputation for disregarding copyrights on music and movies, which are openly peddled on bootleg discs in Chinese cities. But foreign industrial companies doing business in China also have to be diligent about protecting their branded products, as Volkswagen was reminded when some of its parts turned up in the Chery, a popular Chinese-made car. The Chery is part-owned by the Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp., which has a partnership with VW to assemble and market popular cars like the Polo and the Jetta. (SAIC says it bought the VW parts on the open market...
...consultant in New York City who has used Restylane herself. The Swedish manufacturer of Restylane, Q-Med, plans to seek FDA approval next month and is hoping for a U.S. launch next spring. But true beauty junkies won't be waiting that long. Some U.S. doctors are bringing back bootleg Restylane--or having patients do it--and charging up to $1,000 a shot. --By Charla Krupp
...Tokio. But Taiwan's teens had not had a local boy band to worship since Little Tigers disbanded a decade ago, and 400,000 copies of Meteor Rain flew off the shelves; it sold more than 1 million Asia-wide. That success was quickly replicated on the mainland, where bootleg copies of the show, album and merchandise hit the streets...