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Woman pleads no contest in massive piracy bust
By Reuters News Agency, August 27, 2002
http://rtnews.globetechnology.com/servlet/ArticleNews/tech/RTGAM/20020827/gthay/Technology/techBN/

"A Taiwanese woman has pleaded no contest to charges she and her
associates imported nearly $75-million (U.S.) worth of counterfeit
software, including Microsoft Corp. operating systems, the Los Angeles
County District Attorney's Office said on Monday."
>From Globetechnology.com

Record labels say CD sales down 7%, blame Web
By Reuters News Agency, August 27, 2002
http://rtnews.globetechnology.com/servlet/ArticleNews/tech/RTGAM/20020827/gtmusic/Technology/techBN/

"Compact disc shipments fell 7 per cent in the first six months of this
year versus last year as growing use of Internet downloading services
undermined sales, the record industry said on Monday."
>From Globetechnology.com
Contributed by S Davies


Colleges Demand that Fakedegrees.com Remove Their Names from Its Web
Site
By Dan Carnevale, Chronicle of Higher Education, August 27, 2002
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/08/2002082701t.htm

"Officials from several institutions have demanded that a company that
sells fake diplomas over the Internet stop listing the colleges' names
on its Web site. The company, fakedegrees.com, has complied with many of
the cease-and-desist requests, but not all."