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Says Africa 2.0 (Fr): “Copyright infringement is killing African artists without any intervention from authorities. I was reading an interview of Beko Sadey this morning who was saying that she had two albums ready but would not release them because of bootlegging. How sad! … Can't we explore technological solutions to fight bootlegging such as Digital Rights Management?”
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