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LOS ANGELES -- Film director Penelope Spheeris' new comedy, "Balls to the Wall," had barely premiered in Europe when bootleg copies started popping up on the Internet, throwing its U.S. release into jeopardy. A Spheeris assistant sent out as many as 30 cease- and-desist notices a day in a desperate, but failed, attempt to halt the piracy. It's like putting out a forest fire with your bare feet," she said.
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Much has been written about the expanding economy in China. Growth rates have averaged About seven to 10 percent during the past few years. This trend is expected to continue to the point where China's economy is projected to exceed the size of the U.S. economy in just a few decades, according to some economists. However, a potential obstacle to the world's most populous country joining the other developed economic powers as a legitimate participant involves the issue of piracy. At the end of April, the U.S. Trade Representative's office put China and 13 other countries on a priority watch list. Nations on this list are subject to special review of their efforts to deal with the theft of U.S. copyrighted materials such as computer software, movies and music. The global counterfeiting bu...
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DAYTON -- Advocates for musicians and filmmakers are become more aggressive in pursuing people who "share" their intellectual property by increasingly sending notices to the Internet service providers who serve "pirates. In 2007, 16 University of Dayton students learned about piracy and illegal file sharing the hard way. The Recording Industry Association of America subpoenaed records from the university and threatened legal action forcing a $3,000-each out of court settlement.
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Federal officials on Wednesday launched a new initiative aimed at cracking down on movie piracy on the Internet, seizing nine U.S.- and Netherlands-based website domains offering illegal downloads or streams of first-run movies. Dubbed "Operation in Our Sites," the effort targets website operators who annually cost the U.S. movie, sound recording and copyright industries $58 billion in lost output, $16 billion in employee earnings and more than $2.6 billion in lost tax revenues, according to a 2007 report by the Institute for Policy Innovation, a public policy research group.
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The most important legacy of the WikiLeaks affair will almost surely be the rapidly escalating cyberwar that the group's renegade disclosures have sparked. If you think you're unaffected by unseen "battles" fought with keystrokes instead of bullets, you're wrong. At stake are issues of free speech, censorship, privacy, piracy, sovereignty and corporate power. We may know what we think about these concepts, but applying real-world logic to the Internet leads to unacceptable conclusions -- such as sympathy for the goons in Iran or China who suppress anti-government political speech. This is, of course, out of the question. Which means sympathy for WikiLeaks nihilists who don't deserve it.
