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...SENTENCED. CHRISTOPHER PIERSON, 40, for emailing fake death notices to people whose relatives went missing in the Dec. 26 tsunami; to six months in jail; in London. Pierson, who pleaded guilty to charges of sending malicious communication and causing a public nuisance, obtained the e-mail addresses from a news website and claimed to represent the U.K.'s Foreign & Commonwealth Office in Thailand. Presiding Judge Daphne Wickham said the hoax caused "indescribable" pain. Pierson's lawyer claimed the father of three was attempting to give families closure...
...Fake Watch Two Americans went on trial in Shanghai last week charged with "conducting business illegally" after allegedly selling some 180,000 pirated DVDs over eBay and a Russian website. Arrested following the first joint Sino-American investigation on DVD piracy, they face up to 15 years in prison for running an "audio and video products" business without a proper license. The defendants argue that the law doesn't apply because they sold all their goods overseas. And as for the dodgy discs: "I bought the DVDs from licensed stores," said one, "so I took it for granted that they...
With the best stories already told, the urban poets of the 1990s became fake black mafiosi with legendary gangster surnames, telling fantasy crime tales that were ridiculous to anyone familiar with real ghetto street crime. The socially conscious lament began to disappear with Dr. Dre’s 1992 magnum opus, The Chronic. The music that Chuck D had called the “CNN of the hood” was replaced by a downwardly spiraling culture defined largely by fraudulent performance and outright glorification of ghetto nihilism in exchange for financial success...
...Fake Watch This week, TIME Asia inaugurates a regular look into the murky world of intellectual property abuse. We start with the case of Professor Zheng Chengsi, one of China's top experts on the issue. Last week, while outgoing U.S. Commerce Secretary Donald Evans pressed the mainland to "forcefully confront" its piracy problem, a Chinese court awarded Zheng $6,826 in damages from publisher Beijing Scholar Digital Technology. The affront: publishing eight of Zheng's textbooks online without permission, including seven on copyright infringement...
...said her father had cancer and it was ‘near the end,’ and she started doing her crying routine—I thought it was real, but I later learned it was fake,” Christmas said. “She said that she was unstable and that because her father’s cancer had advanced, she ‘couldn’t even think about paying the rent...