Seizures and discoveries last week include the death of two men in Singapore after taking adulterated sexual enhancement pills that contained ingredients intended for use by diabetics, many more people have had adverse reactions to the drug… In India two infants have died after being given a lethal injection that authorities suspect to be counterfeit… In Australia a blood-thinning drug has been recalled after testing positive for a dangerous contaminant… Seizures by Chinese authorities include one that broke up a software piracy ring worth an estimated $750 million… Pirated CDs and DVDs and been seized in Australia, India, the UK and the US.

Cases and outcomes last week include a Hong Kong court jailing three members of a criminal syndicate involved in selling pirated movies for 15 months each… Similarly in China another movie pirate has been sentenced to one year in jail… A company selling pirated software has been given a record fine of €20,000 in Cyprus… Czech police have shut down an illegal server that shared an estimated four terabytes of copyright infringing music and film over the internet… A court in China has upheld a 15 year sentence for a former drug official who allowed a medicine company to sell counterfeit pharmaceuticals.

Studies and reports out last week include one from the International Intellectual Property Alliance which estimated that Pakistan suffered $156 million in trade losses in 2007 due to piracy in the entertainment business… German engineering companies lost an estimated €7 billion to intellectual property theft last year.