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this post was submitted on 01 Oct 2025
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Damn, that's interesting!
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It doesn't look like anything to me.
For over 15 years, so for a few years before Muammar Gaddafi was killed by USA forces.
Although the country is goegraphically large, it has a very small population, which is almost entirely living in Tripoli, the capital. Ever since the fall of Gaddafi, the country has been in a civil war and only recently (2022) managed to keep itself more or less stable.
When you keep that in mind, it's easy to imagine that the country's economy is still in tatters and maybe trying to recover, so not everyone might have good internet and even less might know how/where to pirate stuff. Even if legal stuff was available, I doubt most people would be able to buy, so pirate stuff makes a lot more sense.
Good for them.
i wonder why they were do a brick & mortar store for it when you can buy it on the street corner and make yourself vulnerable to the authorities; i wish there was a article somewhere explaining this.
Why would "the authorities" give a fuck about western IP law?
Why does anyone without a direct financial interest give a fuck about western IP Law?
Fines and imprisonment
So "the authorities" in Libya are fining and imprisoning people for not respecting Western IP Law? Surely if their government is that corrupt they have better ways to exploit their population, hell why not just collect protection money instead of throwing everyone in jail?
they will once the ip owners and their lawyers take enough notice
What lawyers? Correct me if I'm wrong, but if I live in Libya, and I'm following Libya laws, why do I care if some western lawyer for the MPAA takes notice of me?
IP owners have created international consortiums to protect their profits and place pressure on foreign gov't to respond.
Sure, but not all foreign governments will respond, and with the decline of the American hedgemony, even fewer will respond. I suspect Libya will not be too forthcoming with helping wester IP Consortiums crack down on pirated video stores. And since that store has been open for 15years, I seem to be correct here.
it's more like the american hegemony had bigger fish to fry and getting rid of gaddafi was the last time they thought about libya
You don’t seem to be getting it… American copyright law can’t affect someone in Libya, unless the Libyan authorities allow it. American lawyers can try to sue all they want, but it won’t do anything unless the business owner visits America.
Libya doesn’t have an official extradition treaty with the US. So the American authorities can bitch and moan about it all they want, but they can’t arrest a Libyan citizen and drag them to America without Libya’s consent. If this is legal in Libya, they’re not breaking any Libyan laws, and they’re not harming Libyans, why would the Libyan authorities care?
IP owners have created international consortiums to protect their profits and place pressure on foreign gov't to respond.
I don't think the authorities care like at all, they have bigger problems.
Only lawyers and owners care
I can point you to my local pirate store in Rome, 25 years of operation. I guess even in Italy we don't really care.
It's being used to find an excuse to prevent queers from owning guns.
Cool story. Got something better than a picture of nothing proving the story?