Hong Kong customs officers have shut down a pirated online gaming operation, arresting a 34-year-old man and seizing seven Internet servers and five computers worth HK$77,000 (US$ 9,935) from an apartment.
Officers raided the flat last Monday (June 23) after receiving reports from a copyright owner who suspected hacked game servers had been set up for [...]
Entries from June 30th, 2009
News: Man arrested for online gaming piracy in Hong Kong
June 30th, 2009 No Comments
Tags: Copyright Infringement · Hong Kong · Piracy
News: The Fight Against Fakes
June 29th, 2009 No Comments
In lower Manhattan, the diagonal crisscross of 19th-century streets creates a number of oddly shaped blocks. One of them is a pie slice of ramshackle buildings carved into being by the intersection of Canal, Walker, Centre and Baxter Streets. Here, on an average day last year, 32 storefronts opened to the bustle of the sidewalk. [...]
Tags: ACTA · Counterfeit Goods · E-bay · L'Oreal · Louis Vuitton · New York
News: Illicit cigarette trade a world-wide killer
June 29th, 2009 No Comments
A growing global trade in black-market cigarettes is killing tens of thousands of people a year, causing huge health problems and costing Governments billions of dollars, says a hard-hitting report just released.
A staggering 657 billion cigarettes a year are sold illicitly by organised crime gangs, half of all tobacco sold in some countries is contraband, [...]
Tags: Counterfeit Cigarettes
News: CEO Arrested For Selling Counterfeit Parts To City Transit
June 29th, 2009 No Comments
The chief executive officer of an industrial supply company was arrested Wednesday for selling counterfeit subway and bus parts to New York City Transit.
The Manhattan district attorney’s office said Joseph Ungar, 47, will plead guilty to grand larceny, fraud and tax evasion charges.
As part of the plea agreement, Ungar will have to make full restitution [...]
Tags: counterfeit bus parts · counterfeit industrial goods · counterfeit subway parts
News: Pharmacist charged with defrauding authorities
June 25th, 2009 No Comments
A Maryland pharmacist has been charged with Medicare and Medicaid fraud nearly a year after authorities found expired and counterfeit drugs being sold in her two pharmacies, court documents show.
Pamela Arrey is also suspected of sending more than $1 million to offshore accounts, documents said.
According to an indictment recently filed in Maryland’s federal court, Arrey [...]
News: Dutch Weigh French-Style Net Piracy Law
June 23rd, 2009 No Comments
A parliamentary committee in the Netherlands finds rampant illegal downloading by young people and wants tougher laws. Critics say a crackdown won’t work.
In the wake of France’s imposition of its controversial three-strikes legislation aiming to crush internet piracy, the Dutch parliament has called on the government to also deal harshly with offenders.
A cross-party commission investigating [...]
Tags: France · Netherlands · Piracy
News: Computer Pirate Charged
June 22nd, 2009 No Comments
Bandar Seri Begawan – Brunei’s Intellectual Property Law is finally seeing some action following the charges brought against a company for using pirated copies of computer software.
The company, EcoPrime Networks Sdn Bhd, had been charged under the countries’ Copyright Order in Court early this month for using copies of unlicensed Microsoft software in their business [...]
News: Deputies crack down on DVD pirates
June 22nd, 2009 No Comments
Consumers can have a lot of extra money for popcorn and soda when they pay only $5 for a newly released movie on DVD, not to mention the luxury of watching it with their feet up on their own couch.
The problem is, according to Hillsborough County Sheriff’s officials, the DVD is illegal.
On Monday Hillsborough deputies [...]
News: “Love Guru” Pirate Sentenced to Six Months in Prison
June 22nd, 2009 No Comments
The new punishment for movie piracy? Try six months in a federal prison.
Jack Yates, 28, was sentenced to six months in prison today for making an unauthorized pre-release copy of “The Love Guru,” the Mike Myers comedy that Paramount Pictures released last summer. Yates made the illegal DVD when he worked at a Burbank-based tape [...]
Press Release: OpSec Security Identifies Alarming Trends in Illicit Bulk Pharmaceuticals and Drugs Online
June 22nd, 2009 No Comments
Two-Year Study Shows Significant Increase of Suspect Behavior by B2B Trade Board Sellers and Internet Pharmacies
BOSTON, MA – OpSec Security, Inc., the global leader in anti-counterfeiting and brand protection, today released a two-year study which shows substantial trends of increased illicit behavior by trade board sellers that offer bulk pharmaceuticals and active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) [...]
Tags: B2B tradeboards · online pharmacies · pharma study · press release