Seizures and discoveries include in Nigeria, a large consignment of pirated books being impounded... In Zimbabwe, raids on markets selling pirated music and movies yielded 14 arrests... In Thailand, over 10,000 counterfeit watches have been seized by the Department of Special Investigation... Spanish police have seized fake Euros worth over €8 million, the largest such seizure in European history... Police in Australia have shut down a piracy operation seizing thousands of pirated discs containing music and movies... There have been a number of seizures of fake shoes in the USA, yielding 15,000 and 1000 counterfeits respectively... Seizures of pirated movies and music have also taken place in Ireland, the UK and the USA.

Cases and outcomes include in the USA, luxury goods brand Louis Vuitton was awarded $32.4 million in damages in a lawsuit against web hosting sites selling counterfeit goods... In China, a court has sentenced four people to up to three-and-a-half years in prison for selling bootleg pirated versions of Microsoft software.

Studies and reports out include one by KPMG that showed that using counterfeit versions of software can be damaging to the infrastructure of a computer network, making security breaches more likely.

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