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New Zealand First to Adopt 3-Strikes Law for Pirates

New Zealand First to Adopt 3-Strikes Law for Pirates

Time 17.10.2008 14:22 Source  torrentfreak.com

New Zealand is known for sheep, rugby, and dramatic filming locations. However, it will also be known for being the first place in the world with a 3-strikes law for copyright infringement. The Copyright Amendment Act 2008 gained royal assent earlier this year, and goes into effect at the end of February 2009. Opposition to this bill, despite being signed into law, is still growing though.

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Sweet, BitTorrent Users - Pirate My Book Please!

Sweet, BitTorrent Users - Pirate My Book Please!

Time 17.10.2008 10:22 Source  torrentfreak.com

Dan Morrill, Program Director at City University of Seattle, who has appeared in previous TorrentFreak articles, has written a book entitled "Selling Books On Amazon, Tips and Secrets". In true BitTorrent style, he's not selling his work, but asking people to please pirate it, courtesy of Mininova's CDN.

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Anti-Pirates Wipe Out Movie and TV ‘Fansub’ Sites

Anti-Pirates Wipe Out Movie and TV ‘Fansub’ Sites

Time 17.10.2008 04:21 Source  torrentfreak.com

This week many sites offering homemade Greek subtitles received legal threats from an organization representing the TV and movie industries. Very quickly, fansub sites closed down or removed access to subtitles, leaving thousands of Greek file-sharers quite literally in a position of not understanding what is going on.

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