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RSS counterfeitingGain Control Over the Vast Unknown: Curtailing Online Distribution of Counterfeit and Gray Market Goods
White Paper Counterfeiting and gray market activity are major problems for brand owners. They pose serious financial and non-financial consequences for corporations, distribution partners and customers. Although these problems have... [16 May 2009]
eBay pays a high price for fakes
Comment Other rulings, such as a case filed against eBay in the US by Tiffany & Co, are awaited.eBay has already indicated it will appeal the judgment, which was handed down just a month after eBay was ordered by a French court to pay Hermès... [01 Aug 2008]
Chips to weed out fake cigarettes?
News Cigarettes subject to UK duty are to carry a "covert security feature" intended to combat the problem of tobacco counterfeiting and smuggling. It's a counterfeiting measure," he said. The three members... [08 Oct 2007]
Vast software 'counterfeiting ring' smashed
News China's Public Security Bureau (PSB), acting with the FBI, has made a number of raids and arrests in the past couple of weeks with the aim of cracking an alleged software-counterfeiting ring. Microsoft claims the alleged... [25 Jul 2007]
Boxing Clever: How new technology can play a key role in fighting the global counterfeiting boom
White Paper The Internet's reach and anonymity have played a big part in the 100-fold growth of counterfeiting since the 1980s. The web provides a shop window on the world, yet it's impossible to police. Now intelligent automated... [18 Oct 2006]
RFID boom time ahead
News RFID also enables companies to tighten their brand security, whether by thwarting counterfeiting or safeguarding valuable products. Investment in RFID technologies in sectors such as the automotive, aerospace and... [26 Sep 2006]
Seven years inside for piracy website owner
News The owner of a software piracy website has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison - the longest sentence ever handed down for software piracy. Nathan Peterson, 27, of Los Angeles, sold copyrighted software at a huge discount... [11 Sep 2006]
Leader: Of course passport security is too weak
Leader At the moment the cloning of the chip isn't all that useful, in and of itself - though could potentially be the first stage in producing forged documentation as part of a wider counterfeiting effort. Botnets, distributed... [04 Aug 2006]
3.2 million World Cup tickets RFID chipped
News According to Philips, which supplied the RFID tech, the track-and-trace chips have been included in the tickets to combat counterfeiting and ensure only those with legitimate tickets can get in to watch the matches. [19 Jun 2006]
Microsoft battles piracy on the desktop
News The alerts read: "This copy of Windows is not genuine; you may be a victim of software counterfeiting. Microsoft is taking its fight against software piracy to the desktop. Starting today, the software maker will push... [25 Apr 2006]
Photos: High-tech at the heart of US sport
Photo Fans can also now print off tickets at home, providing greater security and less risk of counterfeiting, theft and lost tickets. AT&T Park, home to the San Francisco Giants, is, as its name and location would suggest,... [21 Apr 2006]
Leader: Keep ahead of the fraudsters
Leader But the magnetic stripe isn't as secure as the chip - so experts are warning that counterfeiting techniques such as 'skimming' (where fraudsters make a copy of the code on a magnetic stripe) may still be with us for a... [07 Feb 2006]
Biometrics and RFID tracking on anti-crime wish-list
News The Home Office said it has encouraged the use of RFID tags to track goods to reduce counterfeiting and enable the recovery of stolen goods, and added: "We believe that tracking technologies have further applications and... [22 Nov 2005]
Q&A: Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen
Comment But you continue to fight counterfeiting there. Adobe's $3.4bn purchase of Macromedia has been one of the big stories in software this year. With the deal rubber-stamped in the US and on the verge of being approved in... [09 Nov 2005]
Software cops mount car boot challenge
News Police and Trading Standards officers have arrested seven people as part of crackdown on software counterfeiting. Elspa claims that more than £2bn is lost every year by the UK games industry to software... [20 Oct 2005]
