On Oct 29th, police in Bavaria 1 (arrest) a British man who 2 (fall) asleep in his car at a service station near Aschaffenburg. Officers 3 (find) Peter Murray-Cowan, 39 4 (doze) at the wheel of an Audi so 5 (stuff) with boxes of what 6 (appear) to be Microsoft Office Professional software that the car 7 (be) barely drivable. 8 (sense) counterfeit, police (9) (take) both driver and 4,000 copies of one of the world's most famous business programs - worth $2 million on the retail market, according to Microsoft - into custody. Murray-Cowan, a British businessman and would-be politician who 10 (run) for local office in Suffolk in 1999, 11 (be) already wanted there for 12 (jump) bail on 12 charges of 13 (infringe) the trademark on Microsoft Windows. Police 14 (weigh) fresh charges in Germany against a request for extradiction to the U.K. (though Murray-Cowan 15 (not convict) of anything.

In an unrelated case, Italy's financial police, the Guardia di Finanza, 16 (announce) last week it 17 (conduct) synchronized raids across nine Italian provinces, 18 (close) down an Internet privacy ring with an 19 (estimate)turnover of over $60 million a year in CDs, DVDs, pornography and high-priced software titles. Investigators 20 (say) it was one of the largest-ever software piracy busts in Europe. In one instance, police 21 (have) to trick the pirate before he 22 (can) delete any data from his hard disk. Police said they 23 (dump) pails of water under the door 24 (flood) his home. As the suspect 25 (run) out to see what 26 (happen), they 27 (run) in.
(Adapted from TIME)