Are Top Websites In Business With Counterfeiters? (Today)
Jeff Rossen investigates how criminals are buying real ad space and selling counterfeit products to consumers directly from popular and trusted websites, and how those websites may be profiting from it.
To Combat Piracy, RapidShare Cuts Download Speeds For Free Users (PCMag)
RapidShare is attempting to combat piracy on its site by reducing download speeds for free users and requesting more account and file information from its RapidPro subscribers who can still unlock speedy transfers.
Hidden File Offers Suggestion For Pirates: Apply For A Job (PC World)
Game developer Starbreeze is using a hidden file to send a message to pirates, appealing to them to think of the game’s developers, and also to recruit the pirates.
Cudo Blames Vendor For Pirated E-Book Deal (paidContent)
Microsoft-backed Australian daily deal site Cudo offered a Chinese e-reader bundled with a CD of pirated books, and is now blaming the e-reader merchant for the mistake.
Texas Software Pirate Sentenced to Prison (The Houston Chronicle)
A Texas man was sentenced to almost six years in prison and ordered to pay more than $400,000 in restitution after pleading guilty to selling pirated Adobe software.
Keith Kupferschmid is General Counsel and SVP, Intellectual Property Policy & Enforcement at SIIA.