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Wednesday, 27 March 2013 11:10
HARARE - A Harare man will spend a year behind bars after a magistrate found him guilty for piracy. Magistrate Anita Tshuma sentenced Solomon Mbadzo to two years before suspending a year on condition of good behaviour for the next five...Read More
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Monday, 18 March 2013 10:06
HARARE - A walk through town shows that street bookshops have become the norm with the formal booksellers either closed down or resorting to selling mostly imported books. Street bookshops have sprouted almost everywhere and with the accessibility of new...Read More
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Wednesday, 28 November 2012 09:42
HARARE - Self-exiled Chimurenga star Thomas Mapfumo is withholding the release of new albums due to rampant music piracy in Zimbabwe. Mapfumo, who held talks this week with giant South African record company Sheer Music on the possibility of releasing new...Read More
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Tuesday, 23 October 2012 12:29
GWERU - Zimbabwe’s famed mbira orchestra; Mbira Dzenharira believes recording companies are inadequately supplying the market, thus creating a gap for pirates. Mbira Dzenharira’s Chaka Chakandika told Daily News that local recording companies created artificial shortages, hence fuelling piracy. “We many...Read More
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Monday, 01 October 2012 13:42
HARARE - On Friday, September 14, this writer was summoned to the Harare Central Police Station to witness the incineration of what was estimated to be over 260 000 tapes, CD’s, DVD’s in the latest anti-piracy operation. The operation was...Read More
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Monday, 03 September 2012 14:42
HARARE - Despite frantic efforts by the Zimbabwean government to end music piracy the scourge is proving to be far from ending. This year recording studios slashed prices for CDs to compete with pirated CDs but it seems music consumers are...Read More
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