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News October 2002
News stories gathered constantly by the Brand Intelligence team.
3.10.02
Digital download day 'a success'
The music industry hits back at illegal download sites
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4.10.02
US Government site hit by hackers
A US state department website is today offline following a successful hack attack which saw obcenities placed within the site
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4.10.02
Hackers redirect Chinese news searchers to meditation site
Viewers looking for the Hong Kong news site Ming Pao from mainland China were yesterday diverted to the home page of outlawed cult Falun Gong
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7.10.02
Activist cybersquatting - again
A subject that hits the headlines just too often is still damaging major brands that fail to ring-fence their domains.
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8.10.02
Bank site spoofed in 'multi million pound fraud'
West African criminals have imitated a major UK bank using a cybersquat domain and that old chestnut - the site spoofing technique
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9.10.02
Music downloads on the increase
The BBC reports on a new Jupiter report showing that as broadband takeup increases, so does file sharing - Bad news for music bosses
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17.10.02
Dot Org domain gets new owner
Following a deal brokered by ICANN, a body called the Public Interest Registry is being set up by The Internet Society to take over the running of the domain
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17.10.02
Ebay wins domain dispute
AlternaBay becomes AlternaBid
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22.10.02
Technology closing in on cinema camcorder piracy
The movie industry says it loses about USD $3 billion per year from piracy, with camcorder bootlegging among the most widespread technique but a US based company claims it has developed a solution (From Cnet)
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22.10.02
Vodka causes trouble on Vin Diesel XXX movie
Truman type product mention backfires on Hollywood (From Zap2 it)
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