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African Drugs Cops to Go After Pirates

torrentfreak.com — In the past, parallels between narcotics enforcement and copyright enforcement may have been drawn, but in one country parallels are out of the window, as copyright and trademark enforcement will now be treated as drug trafficking.

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  • nekroskoma, on 08/09/2008, -0/+2....................................,.-‘”...................``~.,
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  • madwaxer, on 08/09/2008, -0/+1it will end up wasting money that could be better used to improve commn. networks on a national level, more fiber links to remote cities for cheaper calls and building alternate energy systems.
    while i'm here i might as well suggest legalising all drugs so the addicts can wipe themselves out and leave the rest of us alone!

    "As anyone that lives in the real world knows, decades of treating drug trafficking as drug trafficking hasn’t exactly limited it. Moreover, while ownership of something like cocaine is illegal pretty much anywhere in the world, and has a distinctive smell, counterfeit goods by their nature look like legitimate items. Piracy is even worse, in that what some consider criminal, others consider a civil offence, and yet others see no problem at all. In some instances what may be an infringement of copyright, may be a legitimate fair use, depending on circumstance."
  • madwaxer, on 08/09/2008, -0/+1@nekroskoma; my sentiments exactly!
    this will only work to stop imported pirate movies. but will do nada to stop the torrent networks bringing in new movies. most ppl will just buy them from only ppl they trust and treat it like a secret network. the cops aren't even that smart. if any one were to carry about a 1TB encrypted drive with movies to copy to their friend's pc they wouldn't get caught easily. besides who wants to be carrying about cds and dvd when you can convert the files and watch them on the many new media players available? most of the 'new' movies these days are terrible remakes of old ideas and sequels.
  • Kwabena, on 08/09/2008, -1/+0LoL..... Nice one there.

    First of all, John Kufour is a joke! he's showing the world how dumb he and his advisers are. piracy = drug trafficking LMAO.

    Well, they can go on for a week and that will be the end of the so called crackdown.

    happy we are getting a new president now, prez John Atta-Mills!!!!

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