Ah, the tender feelings of a Doctor Who fan, forever at the mercy of the whims of fate.

Mugabe has lost Doctor Who tapes?

Robert Mugabe is reported to own long-lost episodes of Doctor Who.

The President of Zimbabwe apparently possesses tapes of some early episodes of the science fiction series that could be thirty or forty years old, according to The Sun.

Some Doctor Who programmes were deleted by the BBC in the late sixties and seventies to make room in the Beeb’s film library for new shows and Zimbabwe is thought to have bought the first season of the time-travel series when it was still the British colony Rhodesia.

But because of poor diplomatic relations with the country, UK researchers are unable to look in Zimbabwe’s TV vaults and cannot knowtransmitted to the Internet Service Providers (ISPs)  by the copyright holders. The ISPs would then be obliged to transmit  notifications to their subscribers, informing them of the allegation. DEA Section 4 mandated the ISPs  to keep a list of repeat offenders (a "copyright infringement list" ) who had reached a pre-determined threshold  in  terms of the number of infringements committed, and the data should be anonymous. The aim is that copyright holders could later seek a court order to identify subscribers against whom they want to take action.

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