The Chronicle of Higher Education has an article describing how the RIAA finds unlicensed copies of songs on college campuses.
From the article:
To catch college students trading copyrighted songs online, the Recording Industry Association of America uses the same file-sharing software that online pirates love, an RIAA representative told The Chronicle at the organization’s offices during [...]

The FBI reported on Friday that it is investigating 3,500 counterfeit technology products from China.
From Reuters:
The FBI on Friday said an investigation into the sale of counterfeit Chinese computer components to the U.S. government has recovered about 3,500 bogus devices with a retail value of $3.5 million.The criminal probe, code-named Operation Cisco Raider, came amid [...]

From the Counterterrorism Blog:
Today Thai authorities announced arrests in an enormous counterfeit passport ring. 12 people were arrested and some 20,000 fake passports were seized. It was the second such arrest in the past month.
The 12-person gang, included Thais, Burmese, and Indonesians. The 20,000 passports were from a diverse group of countries: Burma, Brunei, Canada, [...]

David Sarno of the LA Times Blog Web Scout writes about a new ordinance that makes selling pirated DVDs and CDs a “legal nuisance”.
From the blog Web Scout:
At Tuesday’s L.A. County Board of Supervisors meeting [PDF], the board added an ordinance to the county code’s Title 13, which deals with public peace, morals and welfare, [...]

Swiss watch maker Rado has introduced a new system to protect consumers from purchasing fake watches.
From Emirates Business:
To combat the problem of counterfeiting and the loss of market share to the producers of fake watches, Rado of Switzerland has come up with a system where consumers can log on to the internet, enter their watch’s [...]

The US city of Houston is confronting a flood of fake identity documents that are being sold to illegal immigrants.
From the Houston Chronicle:
Illegal immigrants fearful of being caught in stepped-up workplace raids are fueling a growing market in Houston for phony immigration and work documents.
The result, experts say, is a glut of false, altered and [...]

Determining the actual levels of P2P traffic on the Internet is proving to be quite difficult.
From Ryan Singel of Threat Level:
How much of the traffic on the internet is peer-to-peer file trading?
Everyone seems to agree it represents a lot of the traffic, but the truth is no one knows (with the possible exception of the [...]

David Kravets over at Threat Level brings attention to the fact that the RIAA has not taken any actions action Harvard University. The post raises the questions of whether Harvard students simply do not illegally download as much as other university students, or is the RIAA hesitant to go after Harvard.
From Threat Level:
Harvard, however, seems [...]

In a first for a major music performer, rock band Nine Inch Nails is giving away their new album “Slip” for free on their website.
From the International Herald Tribune:
In a post on the band’s Web site, www.nin.com, the band’s leader, Trent Reznor, said, “Thank you for your continued and loyal support over the years - [...]

The movie industry in India is losing about $1 billion to pirated movies in the United States. 
From The Economic Times:

WASHINGTON: Pirates are robbing Bollywood of a billion dollars in revenue annually in the US, says veteran Indian filmmaker Bobby Bedi, lamenting that “the face of the Indian films pirate is Indian”. 

“The home video market in [...]