Word: buccaneerism
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Lee says "Tan" (or Chen, depending on pronunciation) is actually a 39-year-old Malaysian lawyer who visits Taiwan every month, and vows to arrest him - and a second suspect named Yeh - the next time he sets foot in Taipei. But since TIME's story, the policeman isn't expecting...
The scandal may prove to be systemic in a broader sense. For reasons that are well understood--the years of turmoil between John Kennedy's assassination and Richard Nixon's resignation, the end of the cold war, the absence of a sustained national emergency that required a strong Federal Government...
The recent federal investigation against software piracy, dubbed “Operation Buccaneer,” has gone on since December 2000, officials said. It has targeted 62 people in Australia, Finland, England, Norway and the United States. The agents said they have leads in 20 other countries.
In Operation Buccaneer, officials targeted one of the oldest pirate rings called “DrinkOrDie.” Founded in Moscow in 1993, DrinkOrDie became famous among software hackers for claiming it released a copy of Microsoft Windows 95 two weeks before Microsoft began selling it.
A fellow buccaneer, the captain of one of the replacement crews, first turned to piracy in the late 1970s and reckons he has taken 20 ships since. He and his crew are from the coastal villages of the Sangir Islands, thousands of kilometers east of Babi near the southern tip...