Japanese Music Companies Are Raided
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Japan's anti-monopoly agency raided several top record companies Thursday on suspicion they illegally blocked other firms from offering music ringtone services to mobile phone users.
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Japanese authorities raided the offices Saturday of the doomsday cult that carried out the deadly 1995 nerve gas attacks on Tokyo's subways.
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The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has announced that its member companies filed a new wave of copyright infringement lawsuits against 754 individual file-sharers.
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The legal action is the latest bid by the music industry to wrest back control over content.
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Nestle  operations in Germany were raided last week as part of a German cartel office investigation of suspected price-fixing by chocolate makers, the company said on Monday.
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The recording industry continued its onslaught of lawsuits against illegal filesharers yesterday, filing suit against hundreds of computer users who allegedly make music available online.
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In what music and movie industry leaders say is a significant blow to the nation's piracy market, police on Thursday raided an office and a garage, confiscating 208 CD and DVD burners and about 40,000 bootlegged discs.
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The music industry is to sue 28 people in London and the South-east alleged to have illegally swapped music over the internet, mimicking tough legal action in the United
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Prosecutors on Friday raided UFJ Bank&#39;s Tokyo head office and the home of former executives, one day after government regulators filed a criminal complaint against the bank for obstructing inspections.
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The international record industry escalated its fight against music piracy Thursday, announcing that it will file hundreds of lawsuits across Europe against individuals and groups it accuses of illegally sharing music through the Internet.    The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, representing record companies tired of losing millions of dollars in revenue, said its affiliates are filing 459 lawsuits in Britain, France, Germany, Denmark, Italy and Austria...
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ORLANDO, Florida  - U.S. agents on Thursday raided the home and offices of boy-band impresario Lou Pearlman, known for launching 'N Sync and the Backstreet Boys, as part of a criminal investigation, officials said.
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Universal, Sony BMG, and Warner are suing Chinese search site Baidu for distributing music under copyright.
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Prosecutors raided UFJ Holdings Inc.&#39;s banking unit Friday in a criminal investigation into allegations that the bank lied to government authorities about bad debts.
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The Recording Industry Association of America has filed a new round of lawsuits against 762 people it believes have been illegally posting and downloading music on such networks as Kazaa and eDonkey.
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Prosecutors launched a criminal investigation and raided UFJ Holdings Inc.&#39;s banking unit Friday following allegations that the bank illegally obstructed recent government inspections by reporting misleading information about its
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A broad group of companies and associations covering most of the Japanese entertainment industry is calling on YouTube to be more proactive in policing its Web site for copyrighted material.
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Some of the world's largest drug firms have been raided in a European probe into the use of patents.