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SHOCK: More than 80 percent of the $300 billion counterfeit industry is based in China

Act fast to get those knock-off bags, because they might not be available for much longer.

 

Chinese and U.S. authorities have collaborated for the first time to shut down a major counterfeiting operation in the province of Guangdong, according to Women’s Wear Daily.

The goods included knock-off handbags that appeared to be brands like Coach, Hermès and Louis Vuitton. Authorities arrested 73 people who were planning to distribute almost a million bags to the Middle East [...]

COMING SOON: WikiLeaks releases Syria Files, almost 2.5 mln emails to be published: The data is more than 8 times the size of ’Cablegate’. Documents said to be ‘embarrassing to Syria, but it is also embarrassing to Syria’s opponents’

The whistleblower website WikiLeaks has announced the release of almost 2.5 million emails derived from 680 Syria-related entities and domain names. They are said to be “embarrassing to Syria, but it is also embarrassing to Syria’s opponents.”

“It helps us not merely to criticize one group or another, but to understand their interests, actions and thoughts. It is only through understanding this conflict that we can hope to resolve it,” the announcement [...]

Anonymous plans to kill the Internet on March 31, 2012

If the threats issued by Anonymous are to be believed, then Internet users, globally, should be prepared for this Saturday, the 31st of March, for it is on this day that Anonymous plans to take down the Internet, confirms a Pastebin post. Anonymous have drawn up a rough plan of how they plan to carry out this task. They plan to attack the 13 root DNS servers of the Internet. While [...]

Super Bowl super bust: US seizes 307 websites: Michael Cooney

Michael Cooney
networkworld.com
February 2, 2012

The piracy, counterfeit and copyright battle has moved to the Super Bowl.

Speaking a National Football League press conference ahead of this weekend’s Super Bowl the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency said special agents this week seized a total of 307 websites and snatched up 42,692 items of phony Super Bowl-related memorabilia along with other counterfeit items for a total take of more than $4.8 million – [...]