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| B.C. court case might change the Internet |
Downloading |
| Trial could potentially make search engines such as Google illegal |
Canada |
3/17/2009 |
CIB-9-0143 |
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| Google in court over Vuitton row |
Luxury Goods |
| Lawyers for Google are to appear in the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in a row over its use of trademarks. |
France |
3/17/2009 |
CIB-9-0144 |
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| UK Man Sentenced to a Year in Jail for Video Game Piracy |
Movies |
| Piracy is a very important issue nowadays due to the relative easiness with which illegal copies of games or software can be distributed over the Internet and various other Peer2Peer networks like Bittorrent. |
UK |
3/18/2009 |
CIB-9-0153 |
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| 730,000 cigarette haul man jailed |
Tobacco |
| A man caught in southern Scotland with 730,000 counterfeit cigarettes in his car has been jailed for six months. |
UK |
3/25/2009 |
CIB-9-0165 |
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| £5m counterfeit cash gang jailed |
Currency |
| Five men have been jailed and one given a suspended sentence after admitting printing £5m in fake banknotes. |
UK |
3/27/2009 |
CIB-9-0168 |
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