Topic: COPYRIGHT - on June 10, 2008 at 10:28:26 AM CEST
Virgin warns illegal downloaders: stop or face prosecution
The age of illegal music downloads could soon be over. The UK's largest provider of home broadband is to warn internet users building up vast libraries of music that they could be prosecuted.
From next week, Virgin Media will send letters to thousands of households where music is either being downloaded or illegally shared. Many of the recipients are likely to be the unsuspecting parents of teenagers who hoard free downloads offered by file-sharing services. Research shows the majority of them are unaware their children are breaking the law.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on June 10, 2008 at 10:26:35 AM CEST
A History of Copy Protection
No technology has played a larger part in the way digital media - including games - is distributed and consumed than the Internet, and its effect on piracy and the efforts to counteract it has been profound. In its earliest days, 'Net connectivity allowed those who knew how to use it to connect via BBS, putting hackers and crackers in touch with each other and allowing them to share ideas. Now, of course, most PC owners have some form of Internet connection, many at speeds that would have been ludicrous even as recently as the mid-'90s, giving them access to entire copies of cracked games that have been made available via IRC or peer-to-peer network.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on June 10, 2008 at 10:24:38 AM CEST
Thief buries 1.5 million euros in park
A Serbian bank clerk who stole nearly 1.5 million euros from his bank left a note reading "I'm sorry," buried the loot in a park and waited at a cafe for police to arrest him.
Aleksandar Spasic Saturday walked out of the Raiffeisen branch office in the central town of Kragujevac with the money stuffed in his briefcase, state news agency Tanjug reported.
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