Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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David M. LaMacchia, a 21-year-old MIT senior majoring in electrical engineering and computer science, was charged last April with conspiracy to commit wire fraud for allegedly running a computer bulletin board that allowed people to make free copies of more than $1 million worth of copyrighted computer software...
Stearns said that if LaMacchia was found guilty under the wire fraud statute, then many home computer users would also be engaging in criminal activity under that law by copy- ing commercial software...
Stearns ruled that "while the government'sobjective is a laudable one,...its interpretationof the wire fraud statute would serve tocriminalize the conduct of not only persons likeLaMacchia, but also the myriad of home computerusers who succumb to the temptation to copy even asingle software program for private...
...pact with the main opposition parties to deliver reformed federal and state voting laws and to honor the results of all free and fair elections. According to opposition leaders, the signers agreed privately to hold new balloting in the unruly southern states of Tabasco and Chiapas, where widespread fraud was reported in last year's elections. In Washington the Clinton Administration's proposed $40 billion bailout of the weakened peso met with stiff opposition from Democrats...
...Chiapas and neighboring Tabasco may also be at an end. Part of the reported price for the accord's endorsement by the leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution was Zedillo's promise to hold new elections in Chiapas and Tabasco, where opposition parties have protested, often violently, electoral fraud. But if a new election deal was struck, it immediately backfired. Worried about the threat to their dominance, p.r.i. supporters in Tabasco took to the streets, blocking highways and clashing with p.r.d. militants.The demonstrators urged the p.r.i. state governor Roberto Madrazo to resist any effort to remove him from office...