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>not find that the statistician had been threatened with prosecution or similar

may be because he is in Canada. Do they have DMCA alike?



The DMCA only applies to mechanisms which protect copyright.


The winnings could have been used to buy bootleg DVDs.


This is sadly not too far off from the rationale behind Sony's DMCA attack against the PS3 hacker.


It is the same rationale.

;)




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