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WASHINGTON, March 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The 60th felony conviction from Operation Fastlink, a major Department of Justice initiative to combat online piracy worldwide, was announced today by Acting Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division Rita M. Glavin and Acting U.S. Attorney Nora R. Dannehy of the District of Connecticut. Bryan Thomas Black, 30, of Waterloo, Ill., pleaded guilty today to one count of conspiracy to commit criminal infringement of a copyright for his...

Background Screening Agency Accreditation Program Will Rollout in Conjunction with Annual Conference in April 2009 MORRISVILLE, N.C., Dec. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Association of Professional Background Screeners (NAPBS(R)) announces it will launch its new Background Screening Agency Accreditation Program (BSAAP) in conjunction with the 2009 NAPBS Annual Conference, which will be held April 19-22, 2009 in St. Louis, MO. Governed by a strict and thorough set of professional...

The French Senate has approved a three strikes law for Internet users who download copyrighted entertainment without paying for it. The legislation must also be approved by the lower house of parliament, the EU Observer reported. The goal is to force people now engaged in electronic piracy of movies, music and video games to use legal sources like iTunes. The "graduated response" would start with an e-mail warning. Those who persist would get a letter by snail mail. Internet service...

COPYING MUSIC to a computer is a trivial thing, which people have been doing for years. Movies, though, have been another matter. Once any kind of media - music, videos, photos - is stored on a hard drive, sharing it with others, including people who didn't buy it, is as simple as sending an e-mail. That ease has transformed the balance of power in the recording industry, where studios are still trying to react and regain their pre-digital profits. Film companies, watching the damage done...

FREMONT, Calif., Aug. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- In anticipation of the 2008 Beijing Olympics on August 8, the CCTV Home Shopping Channel, Intel Corporation and Legend Silicon Corporation hosted a demonstration of high-definition television (HDTV) broadcast capability on a laptop with the high-performance Intel Centrino-2 processor at the Shanghai Pacific (Xu Jiahui) Electrical Mall. The revolutionary new Aigo USB dongle product, designed with Legend Silicon's LGS-8G54 demodulator chip, enables...

BEIJING -- "DVDs? CDs? Games? Porn? What you want?" hawkers in Beijing's Zhongguancun neighborhood whisper to potential customers. Asked for computer software, one scurries off to check his cache, kept behind a nearby shed, and five minutes later holds out a Chinese version of Windows XP Professional for 30 yuan ($3.74) - 25 after some friendly haggling.A legitimate copy sells for about 2,000 yuan ($249.6)."Come with me. There's more," says Li Fuzhen, who has sold...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Missouri man is the first to be indicted under a new federal law that prohibits people from secretly videotaping movies when they are shown in theaters, the U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday. Curtis Salisbury, 19, used a camcorder to make copies of recent releases "The Perfect Man" and "Bewitched" and then distributed them through illicit computer networks that specialize in piracy, the Justice Department said. A law that took effect in April prohibits such...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush has created a new senior-level position to fight global intellectual-property piracy and counterfeiting that cost American companies billions of dollars each year, Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez said on Friday. "Intellectual-property theft is a major problem around the world. We believe that it is costing U.S. businesses about $250 billion in lost sales," Gutierrez told Reuters in an interview with reporters and editors. Bush has tapped Chris...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush has created a new senior level position to fight global piracy and counterfeiting that cost American companies billions of dollars in lost sales each year, Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez said on Friday. "Intellectual property theft is a major problem around the world. We believe that it is costing U.S. businesses about $250 billion in lost sales," Gutierrez told Reuters in an interview with reporters and editors. Bush has tapped Chris Israel,...

By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Police in a dozen countries haveseized computers and made arrests in a raid of groups thatillegally copied more than $50 million worth of software,movies, music and video games, U.S. and Dutch authorities saidon Thursday. Investigators across the globe conducted 90 searches in aneffort to disrupt the sophisticated "warez" groups that areresponsible for the vast majority of copyrighted material thatis available illegally online. The 22 groups...