Corporate Web police hunt down E-pirates

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Internet police are a new type of on-line experts, typically hired by corporations to ensure that their wares are not pirated. The private detectives are hired to guard things like company logos, music and software. There has been a push in recent years by software publishers, Hollywood, the music industry and merchandisers to have trademark and copyright laws enforced on the Internet. The Justice Department and the FBI have been creating teams of Internet Police themselves. It is estimated by the Business Software Alliance that 225 million of the 523 million new business software applications used around the world in 1996 were pirated. This is nearly a 20% increase over 1995. There is a new group of pirated on the Internet who collect new software programs, not to use, but to prove that they can do.

United States. Department of Justice, Industry legal issue, United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation, Software piracy

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U.S. and China sign accord to end piracy of software, music recordings and film; copyright battle; Washington drops plans to impose $1 billion in trade sanctions

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The US and China signed an agreement on Feb 26, 1995 aimed at solving the long-running dispute over the protection of intellectual property rights of software, movies and compact disks and by doing so have avoided the potential for a costly trade war. The agreement begins with a six-month crackdown on violations of copyright law, including a series of evidence-collecting task forces, the immediate removal of quotas on imported American films and increased powers of search and seizure for Chinese police. American business leaders were cautious to praise the agreement although it may be very important for both American business and the Clinton Administration. The success of the agreement will depend upon the Chinese, who have been slow to enforce current copyright and trademark laws.

Government trade agreement and tariff regulation, Economic policy, Foreign Competition, Government Activity

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White House may tighten data exports; industries are fighting controls on scrambling

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The Clinton Administration is considering a change that would tighten controls on export of electronic data scrambling systems. Until now, an exemption has allowed financial institutions to export the strongest encryption technology, but a change is being debated that would narrow the range of organizations permitted to do so. For many, this is happening at a particularly inconvenient time because changes in financial markets and in regulatory arrangements have combined with the Internet's emergence to create an attractive environment into which many organizations believe they could profitably expand. Companies in industries ranging from securities to software, including software giant Microsoft, are lobbying to prevent the government from closing the exemption.

Financial Services, Finance and Insurance, Financial services industry, Telecommunications regulations, Encryption, Data encryption, Science and technology policy, Government communications regulation

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