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U.S. Declares War on Intellectual Property Theft

Posted by samzenpus on from the go-get-them dept.

bblazer writes "Reuters is running a story about a new US effort to stop intellectual property theft. From the article "The U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday outlined what it called its most sweeping crackdown on bootleg DVDs, fake designer goods, illegal music downloads and counterfeit drugs." It also goes on to say that media (movies and music) is highly affected, but so are products like batteries, baby food and Viagra."

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  1. Re:It Will Never Work, And Here's Why by Vicsun · · Score: 5, Interesting

    60 million people are a lot of people, but as many large numbers it's hard to conceptualize. To put it in contrast, in 2000 George 'Dubya' Bush got 50,456,002 votes (source: Wikipedia ). Does that mean there are more criminals walking the streets than people who voted for the president?
    When there are so many people breaking a law, isn't it time to revise the law, rather than futilely try to enforce it?