Good news for file sharers?
Attorney General John Ashcroft has stated that the Justice Department's response to the theft of Intellectual Property "must be as forceful and aggressive and successful as our response to terrorism and violent crime and drugs and corruption has been." [source] [via Michael Geist]
10-11: "Intellectual property theft is a clear danger to our economy and the health, safety, and security of the American people," said Attorney General Ashcroft. [Justice Department, FBI want new anti-piracy powers] [DOJ Report (pdf)]
101704: More on the DoJ Report
Edward W. Felten on Copyright (101804): "It's hard to believe, in today's world, that putting P2P users in jail is the best use of our scarce national law-enforcement resources. Copyright owners can already bring down terrifying monetary judgments on P2P infringers. If we're going to spend DoJ resources on attacking IP crime, let's go after counterfeiters (especially of safety-critical products) and large-scale for-profit infringers. As Adam Shostack notes, to shift resources to enforcing less critical IP crimes, at a time when possible-terrorist wiretaps go unheard and violent fugitive cases go uninvestigated, is to lose track of our priorities."
previously: File Sharing equal threat as terrorism and drugs
10-11: "Intellectual property theft is a clear danger to our economy and the health, safety, and security of the American people," said Attorney General Ashcroft. [Justice Department, FBI want new anti-piracy powers] [DOJ Report (pdf)]
101704: More on the DoJ Report
Edward W. Felten on Copyright (101804): "It's hard to believe, in today's world, that putting P2P users in jail is the best use of our scarce national law-enforcement resources. Copyright owners can already bring down terrifying monetary judgments on P2P infringers. If we're going to spend DoJ resources on attacking IP crime, let's go after counterfeiters (especially of safety-critical products) and large-scale for-profit infringers. As Adam Shostack notes, to shift resources to enforcing less critical IP crimes, at a time when possible-terrorist wiretaps go unheard and violent fugitive cases go uninvestigated, is to lose track of our priorities."
previously: File Sharing equal threat as terrorism and drugs
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