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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.
No I'm talking about American terrorism. The Bush family has strong ties to bin Laden's family. And the Saudi government, one which is widely regarded as repressive as the Taleban, is one of the US' closest allies. Including all the family of bin Laden, with the obvious exception of Osama.
As for the thought that violation of copyright supports terrorism; even if this ridiculous suggestion were true, would that be a reason to punish kids that buy pirated stuff or rip their own stuff? Because that's who the MPAA and MS will try to punish.
This is left as an exercise for the reader.
...terrorism funds piracy.
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