MPAA, Microsoft Testify Piracy Funds Terrorism

Posted by michael on Friday March 14, 2003 @02:08AM from the no-evidence-required-or-desired dept.

GuyMannDude writes "[Yesterday's] Oversight Hearing on "International Copyright Piracy: Links to Organized Crime and Terrorism" featured the MPAA and Microsoft testifying that software and movie DVD counterfeiting is an acute problem, with criminal gangs operating factories in Russia, Malaysia and other countries that have weak copyright laws. They further claim that intellectual property piracy is a vehicle for financing or supporting acts of terror." There's another article about the hearing at Infoworld.

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Just like Bush uses terrorism as an argument by xutopia · 2003-03-14 04:47 · Score: 1, Flamebait

Just like Bush uses terrorism as an argument for killing thousands of people, MS decides its millions just isn't enough and want to take the bread and butter from a few poor people in the world where it isn't illegal to copy software.