“For the past three months, an employee at Gawker Media has posted copyright videos sandwiched between ads for Gawker-owned properties such as Valleywag and Gizmodo.” This quote is from a very ...

Bootlegged and counterfeited items are commonplace. Wherever there's a profit to be made, there are sure to be people bootlegging and counterfeiting in an attempt to make a quick buck. Our food supply ...

In the city of Los Angeles, which has more renters than homeowners and some of the highest rents in the country, it’s not surprising that a market exists for so-called bootlegged apartments, extra ...

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Year after year, Los Angeles has forced hundreds of illegal or “bootlegged” apartments to be shuttered, even as local politicians bemoan a housing crisis. Now the city is easing the way to legalize ...

In 2018, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) won a US$50-million ruling against the publisher OMICS for deceptive business practices. The FTC’s investigation found that OMICS accepted and published ...

Counterfeiting and piracy cost the global economy around US$4.2 trillion a year, new data shows, with footwear and clothing the most heavily bootlegged industry. Figures published by testing, ...

Some of the 5,000 bootlegged units across Los Angeles created without a city permit could soon become legal. The Los Angeles City Council voted 12-0 on Wednesday to approve an ordinance that would ...

More than 100 people have died of drinking toxic alcohol in Indonesia in April, as a consequence of the black market that thrives in the country with strong curbs on legal alcohol sales. The majority ...

A surge in the use of bootlegged sedatives and anti-anxiety medications linked to a string of hospital admissions and deaths during lockdown has prompted an alert from health officials. The warning ...

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