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Some Harvard undergraduates have found themselves among the hundreds of college students targeted by lawsuits that aimed to curtail the piracy of copyrighted material through online file sharing...
...business should be foolish enough to believe this hypothesis. In a country where government-controlled companies comprise the industrial base, piracy is not derived from commercial callowness?it appears to be official policy. Authorities may be quite willing to mop up small, unregulated businesses to curtail street sales of counterfeit brands, but protecting core foreign technology is another matter. That is why Beijing declares victory when street sales of pirated DVDs move into licensed stores that present the same product in better packaging with money-back guarantees and, of course, taxes duly paid. That is why a decades-long campaign...
...With dialogue stalled and Kim's military threat looming larger than ever, the U.S. is increasingly debating its other options. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice raised the possibility of pushing the U.N. Security Council to exert pressure on Kim. Through the 2003 Proliferation Security Initiative, an international accord to curtail trafficking in weapons of mass destruction, the U.S. could possibly step up efforts to intercept North Korean shipments of contraband. But China, the only country with genuine influence over Kim, remains opposed to disruptions in North Korea's aid and legal trade?and with a seat on the U.N. Security...
...news media have the power to stop or at least curtail hijackings [PRESS, July 1]. By refusing to give the terrorists publicity, the press would rob them of the attention they seek and facilitate retaliation. An ancient Greek legend tells of an assassin who murdered a beloved citizen so that his name would be remembered. The Greeks punished the assassin by agreeing never to mention his name. Manfred S. Zitzman Reading...
...Even usually stalwart Japanese business interests in China are spooked by the vitriol: Honda, the first Japanese carmaker to produce autos in China, announced it would curtail business trips to the mainland for safety reasons. Meanwhile, eight events for the Korea-Japan Friendship Year have now either been postponed or cancelled. Roh posted a "letter to the nation" on his website declaring that his country must be prepared to wage a "diplomatic war" with Japan...