Seizures and discoveries last week include one by Irish authorities which yielded fake goods worth more than €2 million… Authorities have made Hong Kong’s largest seizure of counterfeit mobile phone accessories worth over $1 million… Canadian police have seized more than 50,000 pieces of counterfeit jewellery, the largest such confiscation in the country’s history… Also in Canada authorities made a huge seizure of more than 200,000 pirated CDs and DVDs… Other seizures of pirated DVDs also took place in Taiwan and the UK.

Cases and outcomes last week include a woman in the UK being ordered to pay back £2.8 million as well as serving more than four years in jail for selling fake luxury goods… Five Hollywood studios have reached a settlement with a Chinese internet company accused of helping people pirate movies… Two brothers in the US have been given multiple-year sentences for selling a "massive” amount of pirated software… Also in the US four executives have been charged with importing dangerous toothpaste which contained a poison into the country.

Policy developments last week include senior executives of BASCAP calling on the US Trade representative "to move quickly" towards completing the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement.

Studies and reports out last week include one which finds that in Japan 15 percent more counterfeit products were seized during 2007 than in 2006… The 2008 Digital Entertainment Survey carried out by Entertainment Media Research shows that 70 percent of people would cease online pirating if they received a warning from their ISP.