Russia's War on Piracy/Malicious Software

tmk writes "Russian minister Leonid Reiman has announced new legislation to fight software piracy. According to official information the share of pirated software in the Russian Federation decreased in the last years from 90 to 60 percent. Reiman dismissed as a myth the impression that many viruses originate in his country: 'Viruses are written all over the world. Russia is waging a consistent and successful war on malicious software.' Reiman calls for an international organization to fight Internet crime. Last year Russia agreed to take down Allofmp3 after the United States intervened."

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I give up on humanity,hope we burn in nuclear fire

[plasmacutter]

we have people starving in the streets in developing nations, nobody raises a stink about it.

we have people dying of diseases that are curable or quite treatable because big pharma wants their patent money, you dont see anyone threatening to boot the US out for utter cruelty and neglect of human life.

we have confirmed human rights violations (and related labor rights violations) across the boards with several of our major trading partners, and nobody raises a voice.

but as soon as hollywood stirs ever so slightly... OMG WE GOTTA ACT KICK THIS ONE THREATEN THAT ONE. hell i wouldnt be surprised if we went to war because of it (and coincidentally, copyright laws more draconian than ours were one of the first institutions the provisional government set up in iraq, at the behest of monsanto)

i hope we as a species die in a fire, preferrably nuclear, so the roaches can grow up and inherit the earth. theyre much cleaner, gentler creatures than we are.