Map thief resented prestigious libraries
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A dealer of antique treasures who admitted stealing more than $3 million (1.6 million pounds) in rare maps was resentful of the world's top libraries and acted to finance his rich tastes and rising debt, prosecutors said on Thursday.
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Over five months, Gary Min stole $400 million worth of proprietary information from a DuPont database. But he wasn't caught until after he left the company for a rival firm.
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Earlier this year, I interviewed Dutch security expert Ton Cremers on the future of museum theft. &quot;With today&#39;s technology, if someone wanted the Mona Lisa, or those Vermeers in the Frick, they would never try to sneak in,&quot; he predicted.
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Publishers of the new Harry Potter novel have been trying to suppress websites featuring extracts apparently taken from the book. By Esther Addley.
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A Peruvian archaeologist is hurling allegations of plagiarism and intellectual plunder at American colleagues over a barren desert landscape where a mysterious culture built pyramids nearly 5,000 years ago.
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Philip Corwin has one of the least enviable jobs in Washington, DC: He defends file-swapping networks. That&#39;s not a trivial task for Corwin, the lobbyist for Kazaa&#39;s parent company.
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The author and two associates are accused of violating copyright laws.
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Â· Police search for evidence of leaks to US authors  Â· Book claims CIA and MI6 failed to halt smuggling
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A state archivist was charged with stealing hundreds of artifacts Â documents representing "the heritage of all Americans," according to the history buff who found some of them on eBay Â to pay his household bills.
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A hacker going by the handle of "Gabriel" has claimed to have hacked the publishers of the "Harry Potter" books in London. He has posted the answer to the question of who dies in the last novel in a attempt to ruin the surprise for Potter fans everywhe...
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Lesson for would-be art thieves: Shhh, be quiet! A slamming door foiled the plans of two men who police say tried to steal a large painting out of the Hyatt Regency in downtown Albuquerque on Saturday.
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By Jim Provance, The Blade, Toledo, Ohio  Jun. 16--COLUMBUS -- A thief made away with a state government computer backup "storage device" containing the names and COLUMBUS numbers of more than 64,000 state employees, prompting Gov. Ted Strickland to issue an alert yesterday.
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By John Ferak, Omaha World-Herald, Neb.  Jun. 4--YUTAN, Neb. -- Darkness fell. Doors closed. Lights went off.   The public library here became an attractive place for an unusual pattern of repeat break-ins.
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NEW HAVEN, Connecticut  - A dealer in antique   treasures who admitted stealing more than $3 million in rare   maps was sentenced on Wednesday to 3-1/2 years in prison after   a judge ruled that he deserved leniency for cooperating.
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The author of a play that triggered violent protests by Sikhs in Birmingham, central England, has gone into hiding amid threats against her life, friends were quoted as saying.
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The works can be almost impossible to sell, they can end up dumped in the strangest places, you can&#39;t trust anyone. It&#39;s enough to make a thief scream, writes Sarah Lyall.
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A HEADTEACHER has condemned thieves who broke into a school and stole computers worth about [pounds]17,000.  Lynne Ackland, headteacher of Sedgefield Community College, said the laptops were a important for pupils.