Now, the question is, will the type of people who use the hack to exploit the system for piracy actually shell out cash for the guy who allowed them to do so?

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It also adds reliability information about bogus files used by some labels to counter piracy and includes an anti-virus system.

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There is also no international legal system for people accused of piracy, although some have been put on trial in Kenya, while one group was captured by French forces and taken to face justice in France.

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Piracy is so much worse at DirecTV because its system is easier to break into and there are many more DirecTV boxes available on the open market.

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"Piracy is a symptom of the breakdown of Somalia's political system, " said economist and lead author of the report Quy-Toan Do.

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The fight against online piracy just gained a new weapon in the form of the Copyright Alert System (CAS) aka the " six strikes" policy.

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The windowing system has already come under pressure amid plummeting DVD sales and rising digital piracy.

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For the recording industry, which blames online piracy for contributing to a dramatic drop in profits and sales during the past decade, the new alert system is a better alternative than lawsuits.

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And Germany's legal system has allowed media firms to demand mass prosecutions of file-sharers, which seems to have deterred piracy.

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