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MS, Hollywood: Mob rules pirate world By Declan McCullagh CNET News.com March 13, 2003, 11:42 AM PT URL: http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-992492.html WASHINGTON--Hollywood and Microsoft are uniting to warn Congress that their intellectual property is being stolen and resold by organized-crime gangs around the globe. Software and movie DVD counterfeiting is an acute problem, with criminal gangs operating factories in Russia, Malaysia and other countries that have weak copyright laws, Microsoft and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) said Thursday. Jack Valenti, president and CEO of the film industry group, and Richard LaMagna, a manager of Microsoft's antipiracy investigations, testified before a...

Ther chant from the anti-war folks is that a lot of innocent Iraqi women and children will die. Our president and military vow that civilians targets will be avoid at all costs. But folks, lets face reality.When was the last time we won a war BIG TIME? To the point that the combatants were defeated to the point that they would never be a threat to us again?WWIIWe fought that war all out. It was them or us. In that war we didn't worry about civilian casualties. In fact the civilians, just as much as the soldiers, were the the...