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Cutting Off Pirates

“People who persistently download illegal content will be cut off from the net, Business Secretary Peter Mandelson has announced.” I suspect these are the same people who generate a lot of wealth using the global platform. Also suspect they’ll find, … Continue reading

28. October 2009 by Shlok Vaidya
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LOL: Pirates as Part of a Grand Jihadi Conspiracy

Look, Walid’s a nice guy but this is a laughable caricature of institutional legacy thinking: Here is why: these so-called Somali pirates are strategically different from their historical predecessors in the Caribbean, or from their contemporary colleagues in archipelagoes around … Continue reading

22. April 2009 by Shlok Vaidya
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