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BY: Daniel Kenu
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Nana Otuo Acheampong (standing) of the Millenium Financial Centre addressing participants during the Ashanti Region training programme
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The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has rolled out a nationwide training programme for all board of directors and key management staff of rural banks on the new Companies Act 2019, Act 992, to make them fully aware of their responsibilities.
This is to help rural banks escape the traps that befell some universal banks that led to their collapse and the famous banking sector clean-up.
The act mandates rural banks, as receivers of deposits, to be registered first as limited liability companies, hence the need to be abreast of the legal implications.
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A group of independent movie companies, including the makers of The Hitman’s Bodyguard and London Has Fallen, has filed a lawsuit against a widely used Popcorn Time app and several of its users. The companies don t stop there either. The complaint also accuses VPN service VPN.ht and hosting provider Voxility of copyright infringement.
Hawaiian attorney Kerry Culpepper has built quite a track record in recent years, putting pressure on various pirate sites and services.
The biggest score came a little over a year ago when he convinced the operator of YTS, one of the largest torrent sites, to settle with several movie companies for more than a million dollars in damages.
Voltage Holdings, Millennium Funding and Hunter Killer productions on Thursday sued 1707 Management and its owner Charles Muszynski arguing they're liable for users' infringement of I Feel Pretty, Shock and Awe, Automata, Survivor, and Hunter Killer.
LiquidVPN Faces Lawsuit for Allegedly Promoting Pirating Content
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Virtual private networks can be great for folks wary of how their data is tracked online, but what happens when a VPN provider directly markets itself to those who would use that promise of anonymity to break the law?
LiquidVPN is now facing a lawsuit from pissed-off movie copyright holders that argue the provider purposefully billed itself as a haven for copyright infringers looking to pirate their favourite TV shows and movies and should be held liable for its users’ misdeeds. Voltage Holdings, Millennium Funding, and Hunter Killer Productions claim that LiquidVPN users illegally pirated titles such as
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