Word: stolen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Until now, too, the pirates have had little fear of being caught, or being penalized much if they were. The basic U.S. copyright law was drafted in 1909 to protect the printed word and was seldom enforced against electronic banditry. Federal law makes it only a misdemeanor to sell stolen films unless they are sent across state lines or abroad and the shipment is worth more than $5,000; so pirates found it profitable to keep selling pilfered films and treat as nuisance taxes the small fines that might result...
...Century-Fox have assigned attorneys full time to film security, and the Motion Picture Association has hired two ex-FBI agents to staff a round-the-clock security office. Last spring Brown, working with the help of the FBI, which conducted more than 100 searches of suspected pirates for stolen prints, got indictments against 16 of them. Last month a Los Angeles jury convicted Budget Films, Inc. of selling stolen prints, including those of Paper Moon and Portnoy's Complaint, to collectors and theaters in South Africa. Fines against the company and two of its owners could total...
...Green always seems to play beyond its capabilities against Harvard. The results have been agonizing for Harvard fans. Two years ago, Dartmouth upset a highly-favored Crimson squad. Last year, Harvard barely managed to eke out a win. Out of the past seven matches, Dartmouth has stolen...
...potential for destruction is the Revolutionary Party of the Proletariat, popularly known as the Revolutionary Brigades. Headed by Isabel do Carmo -the Rosa Luxemburg* of the Portuguese revolution-the Brigades believe that armed action is justified to overthrow the government. They have many of the estimated 30,000 weapons stolen from the army, and the allegiance of thousands of low-ranking soldiers and sailors. "The movement must be accompanied by force," Carmo recently told TIME'S Martha de la Cal. "There must be an armed insurrection." She added: "I think we have sufficient arms. We are well organized...
...ship cargoes at its two grain elevators in Destrehan, La., and Galveston, Texas. The company also offered no defense against a charge that it used false invoices to market surreptitiously to U.S. companies every three or four months up to 25,000 bushels of the leftover grain-in effect stolen from foreign customers...