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...women would prefer a high-definition digital TV to a 1-carat diamond ring, says a Consumer Electronics Association survey...
...charges in Germany against a request for extradition to the U.K. (though Murray-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...
...people for music-copyright violation alone, says Luca Vespignani, a music anti-piracy official who works for the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry. But all too often, software providers say, pirates get off too easily. In March of 1998, Danish police conducted a raid against a piracy ring which had produced 125,000 cd-roms containing counterfeited software with a retail value of $237 million. Yet the pirates got off with suspended sentences and small fines. "They were back in business within a few months," says Beth Scott, vice president of BSA's European branch . The bsa and other...
...parliament after pro-democracy opposition parties said they would ally with Islamic groups to name a joint candidate for Prime Minister. Their choice, Maulana Fazlur Rahman, is a pro-Taliban politician and religious scholar known to be fiercely critical of Musharraf and his alliance with the U.S. CHINA Ring in the New President Jiang Zemin called for the Communist Party to embrace the market and accept entrepreneurs as members. Jiang's speech came as party delegates met to choose new leaders. Vice President Hu Jintao is expected to take over as President, but Jiang is likely to preserve his power...
...cool twist (Reservoir Dogs) on a Hong Kong crime story (City on Fire). The challenge is for Western directors to transform the Eastern originals with all the grit and glamour at their command. The alternative is to settle for making blown-up dupes of movies like The Ring. And that prospect is really ... scary...