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| French police close down piracy website |
Downloading |
| Police have closed down one of France's most popular websites for downloading pirated content and arrested three men who ran it. |
France |
28/5/2011 |
CIB-11-0201 |
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| 50,000 BitTorrent users sued for alleged illegal downloads |
Downloading |
| The turn of the 21st century was rife with bitter anti-piracy lawsuits pitting studios against their potential customers, with music labels banding together to blast Napster -- and its massive user base -- to smithereens. |
USA |
10/6/2011 |
CIB-11-0221 |
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| Tory Burch Wins $164 Million in Counterfeiting Lawsuit |
Luxury Goods |
| The womenswear brand's lawsuit against Web sites selling counterfeit goods has resulted in a staggering $164 million judgment in its favor, believed to be the largest amount of monetary damages ever awarded to a fashion label in a counterfeit case. |
USA |
10/6/2011 |
CIB-11-0220 |
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| China arrests 263 in counterfeiting crackdown |
Pharmaceuticals |
| Chinese authorities have arrested hundreds of people accused of manufacturing and selling fake pharmaceuticals in the country’s Zhejiang province. |
China |
31/5/2011 |
CIB-11-0207 |
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| Pharma unit found making spurious medicines |
Pharmaceuticals |
| The state drug control department in Haryana on Friday unearthed a racket involving manufacturing of spurious medicines of a Goa-based pharma unit from the premises of Jorker Pharmaceutical Ltd in HSIIDC complex at Rai in Sonipat. |
India |
28/5/2011 |
CIB-11-0211 |
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| Woman Pleads Guilty To Selling Counterfeit Viagra |
Pharmaceuticals |
| On April 14, 2011 Sarah Anne Balsley Knott (formerly Sarah Anne Wetmore) of Waldorf signed a plea agreement after being charged with selling thousands of conterfeit Viagra (an erectile dysfuction treament) pills over the course of less than four months. |
USA |
30/5/2011 |
CIB-11-0205 |
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| Authorities Seize $14.8M from Swiss Account of Fugitive |
Software |
| Federal immigration officials announced today they have seized $14.8 million from a Swiss bank account of a fugitive entrepreneur accused of selling counterfeit security software over the Internet. |
USA |
9/6/2011 |
CIB-11-0219 |
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| Two Convicted In Counterfeit Cisco Gear Racket |
Technology |
| A federal jury last week convicted two people for running a racket that sold counterfeit Cisco gear. |
USA |
31/5/2011 |
CIB-11-0210 |
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