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Music industry wants jail for China pirates (Reuters via Yahoo! News) - China must shut down pirate music factories and jail the perpetrators if it is going to keep its promise to address the $250 billion-a-year problem, according to a top music industry trade group.

New Austerity for German Car Industry - New York Times (New York Times) - FRANKFURT, Sept. 28 - The German auto industry, saddled with some of the highest labor costs in the world, is embarking on a stringent belt-tightening campaign, prodded by a pair of German ex-colleagues who made their names with an even tougher austerity drive in the United States.

WH Aide Heads Back To Oil Industry (CBS News) - A Bush administration official ? and onetime oil industry lobbyist ? who caused a furor by altering government reports on climate change is going to work for Exxon Mobil. The White House says the departure is unrelated to the controversy.

No Need for Piracy Bill, Industry Says (AP via Yahoo! News) - The recording industry and copyright experts urged Congress on Wednesday not to intervene with legislation to curb online piracy of music or movies after a recent ruling from the Supreme Court.

Study: Used Books Are $2 Billion Industry (AP via Yahoo! News) - For as long as there has been a publishing industry, there have been used books, that supposedly quaint world of polymaths and antiquarians poking about musty, cluttered stores for titles few readers would know.

Mutual fund industry pressing for end to GST on fees: seen as tax on savings (Canadian Press via Yahoo! News) - TORONTO (CP) - Having won the elimination of foreign-content rules on RRSPs, the mutual fund industry's next target in Ottawa is the goods and services tax.

Bank Launch Symbolizes Industry Rebirth (AP via Yahoo! Finance) - Buying a scandal-tainted bank plagued by four straight years of red ink hardly seems like an auspicious way to cement a turnaround. But when Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group Inc. takes over money-loser UFJ Holdings Inc. on Saturday, the new bank will not only emerge as the world's biggest bank -- surpassing Citigroup in terms of assets -- but it will also symbolize the rebirth of a Japanese

AARP Opposes Pharmaceutical Industry's Proposition 78 (Los Angeles Times) - AARP urged its 3.1 million California members Wednesday to vote against Proposition 78, the pharmaceutical industry's proposed drug-discount program for poor residents.

Cellular Industry Insiders Indifferent To Mobile Data (TechWeb via Yahoo! News) - Few cellular industry insiders are downloading content despite the industry's push to excite end users about mobile content, a survey has found.

Jakarta to unveil package to help industry cope with fuel price hike (Channel NewsAsia) - JAKARTA : The Indonesian government is preparing an economic package to ease the impact of the fuel price hikes on industry. It has already announced cash assistance for the country's poor.