MPAA, Microsoft Testify Piracy Funds Terrorism

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.

Comments

Re:Oh No!!!

[Xrikcus]

I wish I could mod that comment up

Re:they are getting desparate

[Pxtl]

Ni narc. You actually called it grass. Who you working for? The same people who made those little jingles "keep off the grass, keep of the grass, don't play the fool! Drugs are illegal, that is a rule" which cleverly avoid saying what was wrong with them?

Re:How is this at all insightful?

[deadsaijinx*]

Yes, up until the point that they have virtually elimnated all other competition. Come on, admit it, MS is a monopoly and therefore shouldn't be allowed to charge as they see fit, because they can charge outrageous sums.