MPAA and FBI Help To Train Swedish Police

Posted by kdawson on Monday February 19, 2007 @11:24PM from the Pirate-Bay-not-obvious-enough? dept.

Several readers let us know about a program in which a US FBI agent and employees of the MPAA led a seminar for Swedish police officers in methods of finding and stopping illegal downloading from the Internet. The writer at zeropaid.com says, "I bet the Swedish people are going to love to find out that the US government and a US lobbying group now have a hand in training their police personnel. So much for the notion of national sovereignty." Reader Oxygen provided a bit of translation from an article in Swedish on IDG.se: "According to Bertil Ramsell, responsible for the course, the purpose of the visit was to give the invited speakers a chance to explain to the students what their organization's purpose was. But in a report from the IIPA, the purpose was to educate students in anti-piracy."

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what is wrong with knowledge sharing? by azery · 2007-02-20 02:57 · Score: 0, Troll

I think it is a good idea that police forces share their ideas. Why shouldn't we know how speeding, murder, traffic jams, illegal music, etc are handled in other countries? It doesn't mean that you have to copy the discussed techniques and apply them without thinking or checking them against your own law system... Typically slashdot: information should be free unless it can be used to check about pirated software or music.