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Martin McCaffery
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From: Montgomery, AL
Registered: Jun 99

posted 11-03-2013 01:35 PM

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Cuba shuts down private cinemas

3 November 2013 Last updated at 03:19 GMT

Cuba has ordered the immediate closure of dozens of privately-run cinemas and video-game salons.

The government said they were never authorised, and that it needed to bring "order" to the management of independent businesses.

The Communist island recently relaxed restrictions on the private sector.

Sarah Rainsford reports from Havana.

BBC Report

I'm going out on a limb and saying these cinemas are showing bootleg blu-rays, so the Cuban government is, in effect (and unintentionally), enforcing the copyright protections of the Hollywood capitalists.

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