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| 200,000 cases of fake, shoddy goods probed |
All |
| China's quality watchdog said Tuesday more than 200,000 cases involving making and selling counterfeit and shoddy goods were investigated and dealt with in the first 11 months of 2009. |
China |
01/06/2010 |
CIB-10-0009 |
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| Fake auto parts cost exchequer $350m a year |
Autos & Parts |
| The government is losing $350 million each year on sales of spurious auto components on account of weaker intellectual proprietary rights (IPRs), |
India |
01/08/2010 |
CIB-10-0013 |
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| Online Book Piracy Costs U.S. Publishers Nearly $3 Billion |
Books |
| Book publishers frequently ask us how much online piracy is impacting their revenue. Today, with the release of the first study to quantify book piracy in the U.S., we’re pleased to announce new capabilities to help book publishers answer this critical q |
International |
1/14/2010 |
CIB-10-0029 |
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| IFPI publishes Digital Music Report 2009 |
Downloading |
| “Global digital music sales grow as music industry develops new business models” |
International |
1/16/2010 |
CIB-10-0017 |
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| Six-year-olds are illegally downloading TV shows |
Downloading |
| Children as young as six are illegally downloading TV shows before they are aired in Britain, research has found. |
UK |
1/14/2010 |
CIB-10-0028 |
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| The Real Fake Thing |
Luxury Goods |
| Can buying a counterfeit purse actually lead customers to purchase the real thing later? Yes, says an MIT researcher, who found that consumers dissatisfied with the lack of quality will end up dropping the big bucks. |
USA |
01/11/2010 |
CIB-10-0018 |
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| 1,000 fall prey to spurious drugs every year |
Pharmaceuticals |
| Spurious drugs including multi-vitamin pills and herbal tonics are causing deaths of over a thousand people every year in the Punjab alone with renal and heart failures. |
Pakistan |
01/11/2010 |
CIB-10-0022 |
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| Call for study of threat from "offline" filesharing |
Piracy |
| Policymakers urgently need better information on people's attitudes to copyright law, according to a report out today warning that friends swapping hard drives and memory sticks could pose as great a piracy threat to media companies as online filesharers. |
UK |
1/15/2010 |
CIB-10-0030 |
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| Apple App Store Has Lost $450 Million To Piracy |
Software |
| Apple and the companies that sell software for the iPhone and iPod touch at the App Store have lost over $450 million to piracy since the store opened in July 2008 according to an analysis by 24/7 Wall St |
International |
1/13/2010 |
CIB-10-0026 |
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| $450 million iPhone piracy figure not grounded in reality |
Software |
| This number might seem shocking at first, but the buzz generated by this report is misleading—the estimate is based on questionable numbers and an optimistic assumption that pirates would otherwise buy the software they steal. |
International |
1/14/2010 |
CIB-10-0031 |
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| Fake euro seizures rise by 8%: ECB |
Currency |
| The number of fake euro banknotes seized in the second half of 2009 rose by eight percent from the first half of the year, the European Central Bank said on Monday, a trend that began in late 2007. |
Europe |
01/11/2010 |
CIB-10-0021 |
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