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Police net 7000 illegal swords in raids
IRISH police have seized about 7000 swords, including some with blades up to 121cm long, during raids in Dublin, a spokesman said. Air rifles were also confiscated during the raids by detectives on warehouses and other premises on Monday in northern

Police net 7000 illegal swords in raids
A POLICE officer has been rushed to hospital after being shot during a violent scuffle with a man he was trying to arrest for a Sydney break and enter.

AWMA Leads Coalition to Combat Illegal Internet Sales of Cigarettes & Smokeless Tobacco
AWMA is spearheading a group known as the Coalition to Stop Contraband Tobacco whose mission is to enact legislation that will eliminate underage access to tobacco on the Internet, curtail associated illegal activities and capture lost state excise tax

Accuity helps UK law firm avoid investigation, fines and protect reputation with its Online Compliance solution
London, UK November 4th, 2009 Within days of employing Accuitys powerful online look-up tool for researching and identifying Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs), sanctioned entities and other high-risk individuals and businesses, a top 100 UK law firm

Florida sues online travel firms
Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum has accused two Internet travel firms with failure to pay millions of dollars in sales taxes, court papers said. McCollum filed a lawsuit against Expedia and Orbitz, claiming, 'they're pocketing the difference as a

WSJ: EMI Sues Online Retailer For Selling ...
res- The Beatles catalog finally became available for paid digital downloads, but not the way the band's record label, EMI Group (EMIG.YY), intended. London-based EMI filed suit Wednesday against Bluebeat.com, accusing the online retailer of violating

Illegal Downloader’s of Music Also Happen to ...
A recent study has revealed that people who admit to have illegally downloaded music also happen to be amongst those who spend the highest on music. The study was based on a poll commissioned by the think tank Demos and it found that people who have

Accuity helps UK law firm avoid investigation, fines and protect reputation with its Online Compliance solution
London, UK — November 4th, 2009 — Within days of employing Accuity’s powerful online look-up tool for researching and identifying Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs), sanctioned entities and other high-risk individuals and businesses, a top 100 UK

Illegal downloaders also spend legitimately on music
Illegal file-sharers also spend just under £80 a year on purchasing music legitimately, says . The research institute revealed that 10 percent of web users admitted to illegally downloading music on the web. Furthermore, 80 percent of these people said

Talk Talk slams Government's illegal file-sharing plans
Talk Talk has warned the Government it will not disconnect users accused of illegal file sharing unless it receives concrete proof of guilt. The internet service provider (ISP) owned by Carphone Warehouse said the opposed the accepted 'Innocent until

Illegal downloaders also spend legitimately on music
Illegal file-sharers also spend just under £80 a year on purchasing music legitimately, says Demos . The research institute revealed that 10 percent of web users admitted to illegally downloading music on the web. Furthermore, 80 percent of these

Illegal downloaders also spend legitimately on music
Illegal file-sharers also spend just under 80 a year on purchasing music legitimately, says Demos. The research institute revealed that 10 percent of web users admitted to illegally downloading music on the web. Furthermore, 80 percent of these people

Secret Anti-Piracy Treaty Turns ISPs into Pirates
Can you actually hold an ISP responsible for what their customers do? According to a leaked copy of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, that is what is being proposed right now behind closed doors. Similarly, all participating countries have

EU decides fate of illegal downloaders tonight
The fate of the European Telecoms Reform Package and what kind of action member countries can take against illegal downloaders is likely to be decided in Brussels this evening as the European Union's conciliation procedure draws to a close. Five EU

Chinese writers stuck on apology over Google copyright dispute
Chinese writers Wednesday said they appreciated search engine firm Google's move to talk with them, but maintained their demand for an apology for copyright violation. 'Some progress was made during the talks with Google officials on Monday,' Zhang

Illegal downloaders spend more money on music
According to a new poll, people who illegally download and share music on the internet also purchase more music than anyone else. The survey, which was published at the weekend, revealed that those who admitted to illegally downloading music spent an

EMI hails piracy crackdown as profits soar
EMI has said that it is on track to record a 20 per cent profit margin and sales growth in the year to March 2010. The record label welcomed the European governments' crackdowns on piracy. In particular, the French 'three strikes and you're out' law

Indian Judiciary get tough on corporate SW piracy
Court fines a company Rs. 10 lakhs as compensatory and punitive damages to the software copyright holders, Adobe and Microsoft

Chinese writers stuck on apology over Google copyright dispute
Chinese writers Wednesday said they appreciated search engine firm Google's move to talk with them, but maintained their demand for an apology for copyright violation. "Some progress was made during the talks with Google officials on Monday," Zhang

Accuity helps UK law firm avoid investigation, fines and protect reputation with its Online Compliance solution
Within days of employing Accuity’s powerful online look-up tool for researching and identifying Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs), sanctioned entities and other high-risk individuals and businesses, a top 100 UK law firm protected its reputation and

Writers stuck on apology over Google copyright dispute
BEIJING: Chinese writers Wednesday said they appreciated search engine firm Google's move to talk with them, but maintained their demand for an apology for copyright violation. 'Some progress was made during the talks with Google officials on Monday,'

Chinese writers stuck on apology over Google copyright dispute
by Xinhua writer Cheng Zhuo BEIJING, Nov. 4 (Xinhua) -- Chinese writers Wednesday said they appreciated search engine firm Google's move to talk with them, but maintained their demand for an apology for copyright violation. 'Some progress was made during

Florida sues online travel companies over tax
at 08:39 AM in " The state of Florida is suing online travel companies Expedia and Orbitz over hotel taxes following a number of lawsuits nationwide which claim the sites owe local authorities millions of dollars in tax. Attorney General Bill McCollum

Chinese writers stuck on apology over Google copyright dispute
Chinese writers Wednesday said they appreciated search engine firm Google's move to talk with them, but maintained their demand for an apology for copyright violation. "Some progress was made during the talks with Google officials on Monday," Zhang

EMI sues BlueBeat for selling Beatles tunes online
Beatles Rock Band remains the only legal way to obtain the band's music online The record label EMI has sued a little-known online music site called BlueBeat.com for selling Beatles songs without permission, an EMI source told Wired. The Beatles

MPAA Tells The FCC: If We Don't Stop Piracy, The Internet Will Die
Never let it be said that the folks in Hollywood aren't good at coming up with a totally fictional horror story. I just have a problem when they use it not to entertain, but to create a moral panic to push the government to pass laws in their favor. In