Gorbachev wades into piracy row
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Ex-Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev urges Bill Gates to drop a Microsoft case against a Russian headteacher.
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Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev  on Wednesday hosted the launch of a new book by murdered  Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, the first by her to be  widely available in her native land and language.
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HAMBURG -- Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev yesterday called for a ''clear and careful analysis&quot; of last week's hostage drama at a school in southern Russia and argued that parliament should be involved in the investigation.
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To subscribe to The Register's weekly newsletter - seven days of IT in a single hit - click here Yes, thereâs only been story in the news this week. Rogue Russian agents have apparently been racing around the UK, knocking off ex-KGB spies, and endangering sushi chefs, flight attendants and Italian Academics, using rare radioactive isotopes. The fact that it was Polonium 210 that was used to permanently shut-up former KGB man Alexander Litvinenko was taken as proof of Russian state involvement. Only past poison experts such as the KGB had access to such a devastating material, it was reasoned. Well, only them and anyone with a web connection, a credit card and the web address for United Nuclear. So, beware come office party season. If the cocktails look a little more lurid than usual, someone may well be settling scores.â¦
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SHENZHEN, China  - More than $500 million worth of  pirated software, including counterfeit Microsoft and Symantec  products, has been seized in a long-running joint probe by  Chinese police and the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation,  officials from both countries said on Tuesday.
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Singer Yusuf Islam, formerly known as Cat Stevens, is to receive an award from ex-Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
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Music, books and Hollywood films... China can now add testimonies of regret by corrupt officials to its exhaustive list of copyright violations.
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Russian authorities are seeking jail time for Denis Kvasov, the owner of AllofMP3.com, along with paying restitution to EMI, Warner, and Universal.
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Mikhail S. Gorbachev has decided to devote his post-presidential years to campaigning for the protection of the environment.
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Law reform to help Russia's WTO bid The US and Russia will set up a copyright hotline so that information about copyright infringement can be swapped between the two nations. The US says that it will train Russia in how to battle copyright theft.â¦
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Tactics used on both sides of the piracy fight continue to get nastier, but scorched-earth mindset may be self-defeating.
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AV boss has bone to pick with The Guardian The Guardian has apologised to Eugene Kaspersky after mistakingly naming the anti-virus guru as a former KGB officer.â¦
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Net law professor Michael Geist takes a close look at the contested world of camcorder piracy.
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The Russia-based music search engine is growing in popularity, shoring up the country's reputation as a haven for piracy.
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CHINA BEIJING -- Chinese law enforcement agencies destroyed nearly 13 million pirated compact discs, DVDs, and computer software yesterday in the government's latest campaign to curtail rampant theft of intellectual property, state media reported. The destroyed items were confiscated in the first half of an ongoing 100-day nationwide campaign against piracy, the Xinhua News Agency said. Police seized the items ...
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Microsoft rebuffed a public appeal by Mikhail Gorbachev for its chairman, Bill Gates, to intervene on behalf of a Russian school principal charged with software piracy.
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Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on Thursday condemned the U.S.-led campaign toward war in Iraq as an affront to democracy, saying it undermined international law.