Word: vespignani
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...stiff: up to four years in prison and a $15,000 fine for anyone caught selling, distributing, producing and importing illegal copyright-protected goods, plus a second system of even heftier fines. This year, Italian police have arrested 1,329 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...