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Police shred 780,000 pirated DVDs
Sydney :: Australia | about 3 hours ago
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Theft, some 780,000 pirated DVDs were "shredded" in Sydney on Tuesday, a spokeswoman for Police Minister Michael Daley told AAP. "People don't seem to realise the seriousness of copyright crime and that criminals use movie piracy to fund a range of criminal...
Tags: pirated dvd, Australia, Sydney, Copyright infringement, Crimes, International criminal law, Piracy, Entertainment Culture, Social Issues, Law Crime
Pirate-infested seas ‘not fit for seafarers’
Mogadishu :: Somalia | about 3 hours ago
Credibility ITF Maritime Coordinator Steve Cotton explained: “There are countries actively fighting piracy and there are owners training and supporting their crews to resist it. Then there are others who are shirking responsibility and as good as accepting its steadily...
Tags: ITF Seafarers Section, Somalia, Mogadishu, Offshore finance, Offshoring, Piracy, Seafarers, Law of the sea, Flag of convenience, International trade
Military Action Alone Will Not Defeat Piracy
Mogadishu :: Somalia | about 5 hours ago
Credibility He noted that in recent years, pirates operating from Somalia have been hijacking ships in the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean and holding their crews and cargo for ransom. However, thanks to the resolve of the IMO and the Security Council, the international...
Tags: Somalia, Mogadishu, World Food Programme, Gulf of Aden, United Nations, Environment, Piracy in Somalia, International criminal law, Piracy
Pirates hold girl captive
Kiev :: Ukraine | about 9 hours ago
Credibility Ricardo Blach, skipper of the Alakrana, told how he saw the Ukrainian girl aboard another hijacked ship. During his captivity, Blach boarded a second vessel, the cargo ship Ariana, to hand over supplies including medicines and fuel. Blach saw the Ukrainian...
Tags: Ricardo Blach, Ukraine, Kiev, Piracy in Somalia, Gulf of Aden, International criminal law, Piracy
Advanced submarines to join Iran Navy
Mogadishu :: Somalia | about 11 hours ago
Credibility The Ghadir class submarine is capable of remaining hidden even from advanced radars and swift detection and location vessels. He added that another four hovercrafts would also join the navy as their repair work had been completed. The admiral described...
Tags: Gulf of Aden, Navy Mon, Somalia, advanced submarine, iran navy, Mogadishu, Ghadir class submarine, Islamic Republic of Iran Navy, Military of Iran, Piracy, Midget submarines, Piracy in Somalia, Hormozgan Province
Anti-piracy: Navy deploys patrol ship off Seychelles, Mauritius
Ins :: Switzerland | about 13 hours ago
Credibility The presence of this ship will help in deterring piracy in these areas, said a government release on Monday. Over the past few years, incidents of piracy in the Gulf of Aden have increased considerably. More than 174 piracy attempts, involving ships of...
Tags: Seychelles Coast Guard, Indian Navy, Gulf of Aden, Mauritius New Delhi, Somalia Basin, Switzerland, Ins, Great Rift Valley, Aden, Piracy, INS Tabar, Environment, Piracy in Somalia, Arabian Sea
Fox CEO wants US to join France on Internet piracy
Athens :: Greece | about 14 hours ago
Credibility The CEO of Fox Filmed Entertainment says the U.S. should join France in cutting off the Internet connection of users who repeatedly download copyright-protected films. Jim Gianopulos says punishing repeat offenders would help create "a level playing field"...
Tags: Greece, Athens, Motion picture rating systems, Computer law, Independent film, File sharing, Copyright infringement of audio-visual works, Cinema of the United States, Motion Picture Association of America, Cartels, Entertainment Culture, Technology Internet, International criminal law, Piracy, Jim Gianopulos
Pirates free hijacked ship bound for Somali port
Mogadishu :: Somalia | about 14 hours ago
Credibility Somalia — A Somali businessman says a ship hijacked by pirates off East Africa two weeks ago has been released. Ali Dheere, the chairman of a group of traders in Mogadishu, says the al-Mizan has arrived in Somalia's capital. The Panama-flagged, United...
Tags: Somalia, Somalis, Mogadishu, timeline of the War in Somalia, MV Sirius Star, Somali people, Piracy
Greek bulk carrier escapes capture
Mogadishu :: Somalia | about 16 hours ago
Credibility The Red Sea Spirit, sailing under a Panama flag was reportedly attacked and boarded by armed men late on November 19 in the Gulf of Aden some 36 nautical miles off the port of Balhalf, though news about the capture was not published until November 22.
Tags: bulk carrier, Somalia, Mogadishu, Great Rift Valley, Piracy, MV Horizon-1, Piracy in Somalia, Gulf of Aden, Arabian Sea
Books of The Times: Vile Heroes and High-Seas Swagger
Kingston :: NY :: USA | about 21 hours ago
Credibility The jacket copy for “Pirate Latitudes” states ambiguously that this book was “discovered as a complete manuscript in his files” after its author, Michael Crichton , died last year. Crichton was well known for putting his medical training (as the creator...
Tags: Michael Crichton, Kingston, Pirate Latitudes, Michael Crichton's untitled posthumous novel, Piracy, Next
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