August 6, 2009
Sweden’s tough new anti-piracy law has led to a sharp drop in illegal downloading but critics say the effects will be short-lived and argue it is an excessive breach of personal privacy. Sweden’s legislation, based on the European Union’s Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive, is credited with a 30 percent fall in the country’s total [...]
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April 12, 2009
Kenyan port authority security personnel block the media from taking pictures of the U.S.-flagged container ship, Maersk Alabama at the coastal sea port of Mombasa, 500km (311 miles) from the capital Nairobi, April 12, 2009. U.S. warships tracked a boatload of gunmen holding a U.S. ship’s captain hostage off the Somali coast on Sunday and [...]
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