SAN JOSE, Calif., March 28, 2008
Do Pirated Films Fund Terrorism?
Attorney General Mukasey Warns Intellectual Property Theft Crimes Are On The Rise
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Attorney General Michael Mukasey arrives to speak about intellectual property at the Tech Museum of Innovation, March 28, 2008 in San Jose, Calif. Mukasey is in California to meet with top representatives from Silicon Valley tech companies to discuss the governments efforts to prosecute intellectual property violations. (AP Photo/George Nikitin)
Terror groups are taking their cues from organized crime and funding their operations with money they make committing intellectual property crimes, he told a gathering of Silicon Valley executives.
"Criminal syndicates, and in some cases even terrorist groups, view IP crime as a lucrative business and see it as a low-risk way to fund other activities," Mukasey said. "A primary goal of our IP enforcement mission is to show these criminals that they're wrong."
Mukasey, who did not elaborate and did not take questions, said his department is devoting increasing resources to prosecuting such crimes and filed 7 percent more IP cases in 2007 than in 2006 and 33 percent more than in 2005.
Before Friday's speech, Mukasey met privately with representatives from companies including Apple Inc. and Adobe Systems Inc.
A day earlier, the attorney general also met with entertainment industry executives in Los Angeles during his three-day California trip.
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- I''ve bought over 300 movies legally and used a program to make my own personal copies of said movies and then I resell the original dvd''s on eBay...I''m not a terrorist, but I''d like to have just 1/5th. of their money...
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- DOES OBAMA?
Posted by obama8years at 12:06 PM : Mar 29, 2008
No silly...He funds racism... - Reply to this comment
- Oh really so buying a bootleg films is fostering terrorism?
Want to know what really fosters terrorism? How about invading and occupying another country and causing 2 million refugees and sending home a 500,000 person army for the whole nation without pay???
Jeeezz-la-wheezzz when will these necons learn!!?? - Reply to this comment
- Newsflash... Government rebate checks fund terrorism groups. Many terrorist cells are joining their rebate checks together to get more fire power, thanks to the US Government...
Everything funds terrorism if you want it to look that way.... but Bush funds them more than anyone else....
Funny he can figure this out but can%u2019t decide if water boarding is torture...... Another idiot for the dump... - Reply to this comment
- ''Do Pirated Films Fund Terrorism?''
Is Mukasey trying to make me miss Gonzales? - Reply to this comment
- How many films would someone have to "pirate" to profit $400 billion that Mobil-Exxon has in cash reserves from the "pirating" of my local gas pump. Why doesn''t McCrazy investigate their profits instead.
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- Wow! I thought I''d heard it all, with the Bush regime, but now this! 9/11 gets dragged into everything else, so I guess the Bush regime now wants to use "terrorism" as the justification for going after video piracy. What a crock.
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- Do Pirated Films Fund Terrorism?
Yes, and so does drinking, drugs, and out of wedlock ***. Too bad they don''t have powerful industries ready to misuse Homeland Defense Dept funds to ''combat'' the problem. - Reply to this comment
- The Jewish Telegraphic Agency today reports that the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Jr., long-time pastor of Barak Obama, published an op-ed piece signed by a Hamas leader. The item appeared in the July 22, 2007 edition of his Trinity United Church newspaper on the "Pastor''''''''''''''''s Page." The op-ed piece justifies attacks on Israeli civilians, and carries a supporting introduction by Mr. Wright.
Barak Obama issued a statement strongly condemning these views of his pastor. "I certainly wasn%u2019t in church when that outrageously wrong [Hamas] piece was re-printed in the bulletin,%u201D Obama added.
Obama is a long-time member of Trinity United, and his financial contributions to his church are reported to be substantial ("All told, the [Obama] couple gave $27,500 to [Trinity United] in 2005 and 2006," according to the New York Times of March 26). His moral support to the church has been unwavering. As more and more and more details of the extremist political positions of the church are revealed, Obama''''''''''''''''s response has been to distance himself from these, but also to repeat, over and over, that he didn''''''''''''''''t know, that he wasn''''''''''''''''t there.
I find it very difficult to believe that an intelligent, energetic, and very political man like Obama is perpetually ignorant about what goes on in the church to which he devotes so many of his resources. If he does get to the White House, will he be in similar ignorance about the goings on of his administration ? - Reply to this comment
- DOES OBAMA?
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Author Thomas Friedman on Obama's Afghanistan plan and the war on terror.
