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MPAA, Microsoft Testify Piracy Funds Terrorism

Posted by michael on 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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  1. they are getting desparate by moab · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah and Osama Bin Laden is sittin in a cave in Afghanistan with a buncha cds and a burner!

    1. Re:they are getting desparate by Thud457 · · Score: 5, Funny
      "If these commercials were to show the truth, they would show a car full of stoners laughing as they wallk out of Krispy Kreme with 10 boxes of donuts... Harmless? =D"

      The munchies stimulate the economy -- particularly in the service sector which, with the corps shipping all manufacturing off to overseas sweatshops, is exctly what puts money in the pockets of real Americans!

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      the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

  2. Re:Oh No!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    No, P2P fights terrorism!

    If you can download it for free, that would undercut the piracy market which is funding terrorist.

    Put your wares online for America!

  3. no no, it funds tourism by blandthrax · · Score: 5, Funny

    Because, with all the money saved on a pirated copy of MS Office, you can afford to go on vacation.

  4. The only logical conclusion... by airship · · Score: 5, Funny

    is that you should create your own pirate copies at home, rather than chance buying a pirate copy that could fund terrorism.

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    Serving your airship needs since 1995.
  5. Here's the catch... by MediaBoy77 · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...if only our elected officials had the cojones to say it out loud.

    The black market in software and pirated DVDs only exists because there is a profit to be made by selling those pirated items.

    If you make it possible to obtain those items without paying for them (i.e. P2P networks), then there's no profit to be made by selling individual discs!

    Thus: Napster, Kazaa, and Gnutella are fighting the war on terror!