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German Customs cracks down at IFA
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| German Customs officials have raided several stands at this years IFA trade
| show in Berlin, including Emtec's, MSI's, and Xoro's. The officials are
| acting on behalf of Sisvel, which has a stand in Hall 2.2 at this year's IFA.
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http://www.heise-online.co.uk/news/German-Customs-cracks-down-at-IFA--/111434
Now *that's* piracy. Attacking booths with weapons.
They use proxies to do the dirty job. Here's the gem:
Berlin Court condemns Sisvel's IFA seizures as "illegal"
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| Today Sisvel, Europe's very own "patent troll", was given a serious blow by a
| Berlin Court. Sisvel convinced German public prosecutors to provide some
| helping hands in pressing companies in the mp3 audio field to take licenses
| under patents, owned by Philips and other companies.
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http://ipgeek.blogspot.com/2006/09/berlin-court-judges-sisvels-ifa.html
The only "criminals" are those companies that take the law into their own hands
and break the law. Sisvel for example...
Related:
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| Expect Microsoft to ally even more closely with the RIAA and MPAA in making
| yet another try at hardware-based DRM restrictions — and legislation making
| them mandatory. The rationale will be to stop piracy and spam, but the real
| goal will be customer control and a lockout of all unauthorized software. Two
| previous attempts at this have failed, but the logic of Microsoft's situation
| is such that they must keep trying.
|
| I also expect a serious effort, backed by several billion dollars in bribe
| money (oops, excuse me, campaign contributions), to get open-source software
| outlawed on some kind of theory that it aids terrorists. We can only defeat
| that by making sure that national governments become so attached to
| open-source code that their military men and bureaucrats will short-stop the
| bribed legislators, rather than let their vital infrastructure be outlawed.
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http://www.catb.org/~esr/halloween/halloween11.html
SEC Investigating Microsoft Practices -- Earnings Manipulated, Former Employee
Contends
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| "The CFO to whom Charlie was reporting his concerns about illegality was the
| biggest advocate for the very illegality that was going on," Vial argued in
| court a year ago.
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http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19990701&slug=2969514
Microsoft Agrees To Refrain From Accounting Violations in SEC Settlement
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| Microsoft has agreed to refrain from accounting violations to settle federal
| regulators' allegations that it misrepresented its financial performance, the
| government announced Monday.
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| Under a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the software
| giant neither admitted to nor denied wrongdoing. No fine was imposed.
|
| The SEC alleged that Microsoft's accounting practices from July 1994 through
| June 1998 caused its income to be substantially misstated.
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http://www.crn.com/it-channel/18819490
Whistleblower settles after Microsoft SEC fraud claim
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| But court records of the case show Pancerzewski had claimed he'd been ordered
| to destroy a consultant's report about potential tax liabilities in Europe,
| and that he'd found that Microsoft was controlling the level of reported
| income by switching money back and forth from reserves. Much simplified, this
| procedure involves putting money into reserves in good times, and
| transferring it back into reported income when times are hard. It's used to
| keep earnings apparently growing smoothly, and it is illegal, under SEC
| rules.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/1999/01/09/whistleblower_settles_after_microsoft_sec/
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