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Cebit stands patently raided

Cops and robbers at show
Friday, 7 March 2008, 11:35

MORE THAN 50 stands at Cebit were raided on suspicion of patent infringements over MP3 and DVD copying technology.

Reuters reported that raids were carried out on 24 Chinese, 12 Taiwanese and nine German companies among others. Twenty people were made to pay 1,000 euro security deposits, which most did.

Nearly 200 police and customs officers were involved and they carted off mobile phones, flat screen monitors and digital picture frames. ยต

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Stealing common

hehe, when I attended Cebit, the last day was a riot. We had to keep our eyes on our equipment as local German people would come over and give your stand a good looking over.

The legal ones would make you an offer for anything and everything on the basis of its costly to ship your show material back. 

The illegal ones would try to nick your stuff! I was told IBM ( and other large companies) would lost thousands of pounds of equipment at the end of every show.


posted by : Stuart Halliday, 07 March 2008 Complain about this comment
that's crazy

i mean, why are cops such tight asses over there when it comes to music and what not? they should hold cebit or something to that effect here in canada, where not only can you donwload mp3's and it's legal, but also get free health care no matter who you are!

posted by : spencer, 07 March 2008 Complain about this comment
Huh?

Health Care? Where did that come from?

posted by : Rick P, 07 March 2008 Complain about this comment
Raid!

Why are the Cops like they are on this. Well someone has been paid off by the music dogs and they are trying to get back in the news . To many music stars are dropping the music company's because of what they are doing. And they are getting a bad rap on the news. So they are trying what desperate people do when they are losing. Any thing they can to try to get control of it all again. 
But I bet if you did some looking around you would trace back to a person in the Government and from there back to the Music company's .

posted by : Daedalus, 07 March 2008 Complain about this comment
WHAT?

"they carted off mobile phones, flat screen monitors and digital picture frames* ?
am I missing something here?
fek I thought the UK was going nuts..

posted by : Tim, 07 March 2008 Complain about this comment
Sisvel was the instigator of this whole Cebit booth debacle

I've read another article somewhere else that Sisvel was trying to prevent other patent non-licensees from showing and files a complaint
with the Deutsche authorities. Meizu was 1 of the companies implicated with their Mini1.
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdigi.tech.qq.com%2Fa%2F20080306%2F000120.htm&langpair=zh%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

posted by : morissen3k8, 09 March 2008 Complain about this comment
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