Moreover, dogs have been trained to sniff out DVDs for raids on large bootlegging operations.

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Politicians did not anticipate the extent of unintended consequences, as the illegal commodity only encouraged bootlegging, speakeasies and the mafia.

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If bootlegging acts as a safety valve to keep software prices sensible, might that not be such a bad thing after all?

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Its aim, among other things, is to address the problem of bootlegging.

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"The suit was filed as a result of Roth attempting to clean up the bootlegging and piracy of his image off the Internet, " Benice says.

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The most notorious Prohibition-era crime boss was Al Capone, the Chicago gangster who got his start in New York and made most of his money smuggling and bootlegging alcohol.

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Since the early 1980s the major Hollywood movie studios, represented by the MPAA, have fought hard to eliminate piracy -- both in the form of bootlegging, and more recently online file sharing.

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