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...entertainment business, it's known as a "rip-off," and it's all too common...
...Baseball and other programs. Soon the network plans to present evidence to the Chinese government, which has been touting its crackdown on copyright violations that cost foreign firms up to $1 billion last year. "I find it amazing that a Foreign Ministry company would use a smuggled decoder to rip off these shows," says DAVID CANTALUPO, ESPN's general manager in China. The ministry's company insists it bought rights to the shows but won't say from whom. Who enjoys the pilfered programs? The apartments are stuffed with diplomats and journalists, including U.S. State Department officials and reporters from...
...available in the U.S. on the Nettwerk America label. It shared the warbling vocals and slow, stately beat of Radiohead's more conservative efforts, and comparisons between the two bands ran amuck in the music press--as did disdain from other musicians, who saw the newcomers as rip-offs. But in January, Coldplay won three nominations for Brit Awards (the British Grammys), including Best British Group and Best British Album. Radiohead, whose members are in their early 30s and whose most recent album, Kid A, has met with massive critical acclaim and popular success, is up for those two awards...
...white nose fell, a tiny stone building houses two memorial books. One lists the dead in flowing script, another records their personal histories. Pilgrims who come to this silent, haunting place have also left signed photographs behind, mostly of children, or notes in the visitors' book. "John Michael Ahern. rip. Always in our hearts. Love, Dad," was one poignant entry last month for the 26-year-old from New York who loved skiing...
...computer workstations. Holding a heat gun in one hand and metal tweezers in the other, they pry silicon chips from circuit boards like dentists extracting little metal teeth. Down the hall, a jumble of bright green motherboards spills out onto a conveyor belt headed toward a shredder that will rip them to cracker-size pieces of plastic. And around the corner, a clean-cut guy in a black work smock takes a big hammer and smashes one hard drive after another before tossing them into a huge bin marked ALUMINUM...