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Between Friends

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Launch date(debut) May 1990; 29 years ago; (syndication) February 1994; 25 years ago
SyndicateKing Features Syndicate
Authors Sandra Bell-Lundy
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About Between Friends


Between Friends is an internationally syndicated comic strip written by Canadian Sandra Bell-Lundy. The comic strips appear in more than 175 newspapers in ten countries around the world.

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... " The allegations have been widely described by reporters in the press and on social media as an open secret and quite often these secrets are shared Between Friends and colleagues just to keep each other safe, " Dame Caroline Dinenage said...

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... " However, I do think allowances need to be made for the heightened emotions that were clearly present when some of the messages were written and for the fact that these were assumed to be personal correspondence Between Friends that would never have been imagined to be seen by anyone else and certainly not analysed to the extent they were...

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... And the faultline Between Friends of America and friends of Iran in the Middle East is heating up again - if it moves from threats and covert confrontation to another hot war it will be every bit as dangerous and destabilising as Russia s war in Ukraine...

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... " I didn t even think the TikTok would get as much attention as it did, I made it as a joke Between Friends because the whole situation has been so funny and baffling, and I guess a lot of people are invested as well...

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... Playing cards, scratchcards, fruit machines and betting Between Friends were more popular platformsamong young people for gambling than BGC member firms, Mr Dugher said" The BGC take a zero tolerance approach to gambling by those under the age of 18 and we enforce the toughest possible action, " he said...

Netflix password sharing may be illegal, says UK government

Mar 27,2022 3:26 pm

By Tom GerkenTechnology reporter

Sharing passwords for online streaming services such as Netflix is against The Law , according to a Government Agency .

The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) said on Tuesday The Practice broke copyright Law .

It is common in the UK for people who don't live together to share their streaming Service passwords, despite this typically being against terms of Service agreements.

Netflix has never indicated it would take any legal action in such cases.

The IPO told The Bbc it was both a criminal and civil matter.

" There are a range of provisions in criminal and Civil Law which may be applicable in the case of password sharing where the intent is to allow a user to access copyright-protected works without payment, " it said.

" These provisions may include breach of contractual terms, fraud or secondary copyright infringement, depending on the circumstances.

" Where these provisions are provided in Civil Law , it would be up to The Service provider to take action through the courts if required. "

There is no evidence to suggest any of The Major streaming video operators in the UK would do this.

Netflix said it wanted to " make it easy" for people borrowing others' accounts to Set Up their own, to transfer their profile into a new account, as well as to create " sub-accounts" for people to pay extra for family or friends.

It said it would start rolling out these features " more broadly" in early 2023.

The Bbc has also approached streaming Service operators Amazon and Disney for comment.

Scale of the problem

On Tuesday, the IPO published guidance on avoiding piracy and counterfeit goods online.

In the guidance, it called piracy a " major issue for the entertainment and creative industries" and gave examples of actions, such as password sharing, which it said broke copyright Law .

Research firm Digital i it estimated More Than a quarter of UK Netflix subscribers - Around four million - were sharing their passwords.

The Following month, then-Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries revealed she was one of them.

" My mum has access To My account, The Kids do. I have Netflix But there are four Other People who can use my Netflix account in different parts of the country, " she told the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee.

When Netflix was growing in the UK, the streaming Service joked in a tweet about password sharing being commonplace Between Friends and family.

The Bbc is not responsible for the content of external sites.

Since then user growth has stalled and Netflix has tried to Crack Down on The Practice worldwide, which is against its terms of Service - But it has never taken legal action.

Instead, it has introduced new price tiers to make The Service seem more appealing, such as the £4. 99 ad-supported price point.

Criminal action

One interesting part of the IPO's response is the reference to criminal Law - suggesting that people could theoretically face prosecution from The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) for password sharing.

The CPS did not rule this out.

A spokesperson told The Bbc : " Any decision to charge someone for sharing passwords for streaming services would be looked at on a case-by-case basis, with due consideration of the individual context and facts of each case.

" As with all cases, if they are referred to the CPS by an investigator for a charging decision, our duty is to bring prosecutions where there is sufficient evidence to do so and when a prosecution is required in The Public interest. "

In other words, before the CPS could take action, there would first need to be a police investigation.

There is no evidence to suggest any police forces in the UK would open an investigation into someone for sharing their password to a streaming Service .



Source of news: bbc.com

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