Word: counterfeiting
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...tech titans of Redmond, Wash., didn't have enough trouble, counterfeit copies of Microsoft's Windows 98 have landed in the U.S. The company has this warning: check your disc. True copies have a hologram near the hole in the middle that flips from "genuine" to "Microsoft," plus a heat-sensitive thread woven into the certificate of authenticity. A fake might work, but if it malfunctions, tech support won't be able to do a thing...
...exhibit is essentially an exploration of the print in Renaissance Italy as a form of counterfeit. It features both prints and some privileges, a deed given to an artist by the government stating that no one can copy their work. Some walls display a juxtaposition of originals with their respective copies; frequently though, the copies stand alone. It is organized thematically, according to the different media copied, and focuses mostly on the Durer/Marcantonio Raimondi pieces in the hallway as a point of departure for considering all of the other prints...
...Concord Avenue business owner reports that a female entered his store and sold him what she said was an authentic Beanie Baby for $200. The stuffed animal was actually a counterfeit...
...Limp Bizkit is attracting less attention for its music than for one way the group made its breakthrough. In April its label, Flip/Interscope, signed an unprecedented contract with radio station kufo of Portland, Ore., agreeing to pay $5,000 in exchange for 50 plays of Bizkit's single Counterfeit. "Pay-for-play," as this kind of arrangement is called, is a controversial new twist on the old, discredited practice known as payola: instead of letting songs rise or falter on their merits in the tough record marketplace, some labels are improving the odds by paying radio stations cash to play...
...Spanish galleon Nuestra Senora de Atocha in 1985, says he no longer personally dives for the coins. But Fisher is adamant that he has sold no fakes. "The whole thing is absolutely baloney," he says. "There are thousands of different markings on these coins, and no one could ever counterfeit one of them because they are all different. These coins are absolutely real." A similar controversy over silver dollars was resolved after Fisher flew to Mexico City and searched colonial dungeons to find the original dies from which the coins were struck. "I may have to go to Mexico again...