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| Counterfeiters Plead Guilty |
Cheques |
| Three of 14 defendants in a federal case alleging a counterfeiting scheme affecting Arkansas and Oklahoma await sentencing after pleading guilty to their charges Wednesday in U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Oklahoma in Muskogee |
USA |
8/24/2007 |
CIB-7-3236 |
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| Court orders Linux geek to use Microsoft |
Movies |
| Scott McCausland, who pleaded guilty last September in 2006 to the crime of uploading Star Wars: Episode III to the site Elitetorrents.com, was charged with "conspiracy to commit copyright infringement" |
USA |
8/24/2007 |
CIB-7-3232 |
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| World's Largest Theater Chain Pressured Prosecutor to Charge Teen for Filming 20 Seconds of Transformers |
Movies |
| Richard E. Trodden, tells THREAT LEVEL he was pressured by Regal Entertainment Group, the world's largest movie exhibitor, to prosecute a 19-year-old Virginia woman for filming 20 seconds of Transformers. |
USA |
8/24/2007 |
CIB-7-3239 |
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| Baltic CD Plant in Record Piracy Payout |
Music |
| IFPI announced in a Thursday press release that Baltic Optical Disc, the largest CD replicating plant in the Baltic States, |
Lithuania |
8/23/2007 |
CIB-7-3223 |
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| Vigilance probe into fake drugs case |
Pharmaceuticals |
| The High Court has ordered a vigilance probe into the supply of fake drugs in government hospitals and reopened an old case dating back to the year 2000 in which at least three women and two children died |
India |
8/22/2007 |
CIB-7-3218 |
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| Charges Filed in Deadly Medicine Case |
Pharmaceuticals |
| Panamanian authorities have filed charges against the administrator of a Spanish company that allegedly sold a deadly chemical used in medicine that has killed at least 94 people in Panama. |
Panama |
8/25/2007 |
CIB-7-3245 |
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| Nike compensated over China fakes |
Shoes |
| Two Chinese shoemakers and a French supermarket group have been ordered to pay Nike compensation over fake shoes |
China |
8/21/2007 |
CIB-7-3214 |
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