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Visitor Wednesday, November 07, 2012
No, this is the latest, and it emphasizes the growing global anti-piracy trend:
"A Gabon government minister has said that his country will not be used as a base for committing copyright infringement and has announced that his country will seize the new Me.Ga domain."
Source:
http://torrentfreak.com/me-ga-hackers-were-real-pirates-well-sell-dotcoms-domain-to-universal-121107/

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