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  2. Legal issues with BitTorrent - Wikipedia

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    BitTorrent may transmit or include illegal or copyrighted content. Court decisions in various jurisdictions have deemed some BitTorrent files illegal. Complicating the legal analysis are jurisdictional issues that are common when nation states attempt to regulate any activity. BitTorrent files and links can be accessed in different geographic ...

  3. Short-barreled rifle - Wikipedia

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    Short-barreled rifle (SBR) is a legal designation in the United States, referring to a shoulder-fired, rifled firearm, made from a rifle, with a barrel length of less than 16 in (41 cm) or overall length of less than 26 in (66 cm), or a handgun fitted with a buttstock and a barrel of less than 16 inches length.

  4. Legal aspects of file sharing - Wikipedia

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    One of the country's most used file sharing programs, BTChina got shut down in December 2009. It was shut down by the State Administration of Radio Film and Television for not obtaining a license to legally distribute media such as audio and video files. [7] Alexa, a company that monitors web traffic, claims that BTChina had 80,000 daily users.

  5. Internet censorship in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The states that require Internet filtering in schools and libraries to protect minors are: Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Utah, and Virginia. Five states require Internet service providers to make a product or service available to subscribers to control use of the ...

  6. Odex's actions against file-sharing - Wikipedia

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    The company relied on ISPs to forward such emails to their subscribers who engaged in illegal download activity. Sing states that Odex under the instructions of copyright owners would rely on weekly reports generated by BayTSP to continue the anti-piracy drive, and if necessary would resort to legal action if illegal downloading activity escalates.

  7. Trade group efforts against file sharing - Wikipedia

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    The RIAA has apparently in the past been revealed to and may have admitted to the practice of spoofing, deliberately flooding P2P networks with "junk music". [23] [24] A further reference to such activity was discovered when computer software and source code along with emails were stolen from US Company "Media Defender"; [25] their software was designed to facilitate "interdiction" on all the ...

  8. Protecting Lawful Streaming Act - Wikipedia

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    Modern computer and information technology has sufficiently advanced, most notably around 2010, to allow streaming media to be an effective way of sharing video content on the Internet. This has led to a large amount of copyright infringement through unlawful redistribution, commonly referred to as "piracy".

  9. Law of Virginia - Wikipedia

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    The current version of the Constitution took effect in 1971, after having been recommended by a "Commission on Constitutional Revision", then approved by the General Assembly, the Governor, and the voters of Virginia. [1] As with all states, the Virginia Constitution and any other state laws may be superseded by the Constitution of the United ...