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...Cowan has not been convicted of anything). In an unrelated case, Italy's financial police, the Guardia di Finanza, announced last week it had conducted synchronized raids across nine Italian provinces, closing down an Internet piracy ring with an estimated turnover of over $60 million a year in CDs, DVDs, pornography and high-priced software titles. Investigators say it was one of the largest-ever software piracy busts in Europe. In one instance, police had to trick the pirate before he could delete any data from his hard disk. Police said they dumped pails of water under the door...
...Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) has been storing a large screen TV, two CD players, a portable DVD player, DJ equipment and 91 assorted DVDs since it seized them from Gomes’ room last fall...
...nearly a film a day. The 1.3 billion-strong China market is a potential lifeline, but Beijing classifies Hong Kong movies as foreign, so only a handful of films are admitted every year. That leaves the mainland's prodigious taste for Hong Kong stars to be filled by pirated DVDS and VCDS that are cutting into profits regionwide. Andre Morgan, a Hollywood film producer with decades of experience in the Asian market, says Hong Kong also has a language barrier. When studios began making movies in Cantonese rather than Mandarin, Morgan explains, "It was one of the most critical mistakes...
That invention, in 1987, made Kok a wealthy man at age 42. But it only whetted his appetite. He has since changed the economics of producing everything from DVDs to disposable contact lenses and solar-energy cells. His customers include Johnson & Johnson, Royal Dutch Shell, Warner Music and--sweetest of all--his old employer, Philips. "This is a new type of Industrial Revolution--we are killing expensive clean rooms," says Kok, CEO of OTB-Group, with offices in Eindhoven, Hong Kong and Irvine, Calif...
...company next developed a more efficient way for the solar division of Shell to turn raw silicon wafers into photovoltaic cells. And Kok has returned to work in the optical-media sector, designing in-line machines to mass-produce all types of dvds. His company has invented a type of compression-molding technology called the E-Clamp. Existing DVD-production machines require operators to change molds every time they want to switch production to a different type of CD or DVD--say, from single-sided discs to double-sided ones--at a cost of about $50,000 a change. With...