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From the archives of Time Magazine comes this story of Counterfeit Bulova watches.
Two months ago, Bulova Watch Co.’s Long Island plant was suddenly flooded with irate letters. Each letter was accompanied by a broken wristwatch marked “Bulov 17″ on the dial. Bulova needed only one look at the misspelled trademark to see that they were [...]

Adult entertainment producer Vivid Entertainment has filed a lawsuit against PornoTube, a YouTube clone for the porn industry.
From the Los Angeles Times:
The suit is apparently the first of its kind in the adult film industry, which has done a better job than the major Hollywood studios in finding ways to profit from putting entertainment products on the [...]

Public Health officials in China are worried that the traditional markets in China could produce another deadly virus like SARS.
From Reuters:
Scorpions scamper in bowls, water snakes coil in tanks and cats whine in cramped cages, waiting to be slaughtered, skinned and served for dinner.
Welcome to the Qingping market in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, [...]

From The New York Times:
The United States, the world leader in international adoptions, will join more than 70 nations committed to standardizing policies, procedures and safeguards to reduce corruption in the largely unregulated adoption marketplace.
When the United States ratifies the Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption tomorrow in the Netherlands, it will establish federal oversight of [...]

The International Herald Tribune highlights the plight of illegal immigrants in Malaysia.  About 1.5 million illegal immigrants are living in Malaysia and face harsh treatment from a volunteer force of immigration enforcement.
After being arrested, the illegal immigrants are deported into the hands of traffickers, according to the report.
According to the accounts of a dozen migrants [...]

A boat attempting to smuggle people into Europe capsized in the crossing between Turkey and Greece yesterday, highlighting the dangers of human smuggling.
From the Guardian Newspaper:
Greek and Turkish coastguards were tonight searching the Aegean sea for the survivors from a boat carrying up to 100 illegal migrants, at least half of whom are believed to [...]

A new report from the California Alliance to Combat Trafficking and Slavery Task Force has found that California is a top destination for human traffickers.
From the AP:
The report by a 19-member task force of the California Alliance to Combat Trafficking and Slavery says California is particularly vulnerable to human trafficking because of its international border, [...]

A corruption scandal is hitting global electronics company Samsung and members of the South Korean Government as allegations of bribery are level across the board.
From Newsweek:
One of Asia’s pre-eminent family empires is under assault. Samsung (often called the Republic of Samsung, thanks to its dominant role in the South Korean economy) is at the vortex [...]

We continuously monitor the Internet in search of information regarding piracy and the illicit market in counterfeits.  Through our research, it has become very clear that the mainstream media is highly focused on the pirating of music and movies on file-sharing networks.  In almost all instances, the media reports and utilizes figures released by the RIAA when discussing [...]

The International Herald Tribune is reporting on the trade in illegal logging in Indonesia.
Illegal logging is commonplace in Indonesia, and though the government has prosecuted dozens of cases in recent years, it admits it cannot be everywhere.

The article mentions that the illegal logging trade is able to continue in Indonesia due to the rampant corruption [...]