Piracy case collapses in Russia
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A Russian court throws out a case against a headteacher accused of using pirated Microsoft software.
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A multi-million pound drugs trial on a conspiracy to supply cocaine has collapsed at the Old Bailey.
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A Russian court declares oil firm Yukos bankrupt, ending a three-year court battle for its survival.
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MOSCOW (CP) - One of the oldest Canadian-owned businesses in Russia, Moscow's Aerostar Hotel, has been shut down and its Canadian manager ejected by private guards working for a junior Russian partner.
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Russian call to Finland to block Chechen rebels' web pages comes after proprietor has already shut down The shut-down of the Chechen rebels' Kavkaz Center website, operating out of Finland, was demanded by the ...
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Russian political intrigue has been rattling the international oil business all year, and on Wednesday the Moscow-based brawl between the Kremlin and energy giant Yukos actually tumbled into a Houston bankruptcy court.
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A popular peer-to-peer file-sharing website has closed down amid mounting efforts by the movie industry to crack down on online piracy.
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In a Feb. 13 story about the trial of a Russian teacher charged with using pirated Microsoft software in school computers, The Associated Press, based on a Russian TV report from the courtroom, erroneously reported that the defendant refused an out-of-court settlement from Microsoft. Microsoft said it made no such offer.
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Perspective regained A tiny Russian software piracy case that ended up pitting Mikhail Gorbachev and Vladimir Putin against Bill Gates has been thrown out of court.â¦
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One of Moscow's two major stock exchanges delisted Yukos on Friday, the Interfax news agency reported, and the Prosecutor-General's office said a new criminal investigation had been opened against the oil company's jailed former CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
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Russia's justice ministry announced plans to break up the Yukos oil giant in a fatal blow to Russia's largest oil producer and former Western investor darling that once dared challenge President Vladimir Putin's rule.
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Police in the north-east of England and Amsterdam close an international source of illegally-downloaded music.
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Shipwreck being broken up after efforts to refloat it failed.
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SuprNova.org, one of the Internet's most  popular sites for finding links to download pirated movies, has  been taken offline by its creator amid a legal crackdown by  Hollywood's copyright cops.
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A Moscow court has rejected a request to drop part of the criminal case against the jailed former chief of Yukos oil company, Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
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A federal court rules that the operators of TorrentSpy destroyed evidence in a copyright case against them.
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A Danish court has ordered  Denmark-based Internet service provider Tele2 to shut down its  customers' access to the popular file-sharing site Pirate Bay,  Danish IT magazine Computerworld reported on Monday.