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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Re:Allofmp3

[Anonymous Coward]

I respect your desire to defend your country, however you're incorrect. There is simply truckloads of evidence that Russia and its former republics are huge pirate dens. Sorry, but it's well known and well documented.

Re:I give up on humanity,hope we burn in nuclear f

[servognome]

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

We try to get them food, but unfortunately people shoot at us when we do. If we shoot back then we are the evil ones.

we have people dying of diseases that are curable or quite treatable because big pharma wants their patent money,

And without the patent money, big pharma would never have developed many of those medicines in the first place.

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.

We raise our voice, we protest, we issue statements of condemnation. There's nothing short of war we can do to stop such violations.

hell i wouldnt be surprised if we went to war because of it

I wouldn't doubt it in the next few decades, though probably not about the early release to the internet of the new 007 movie.
Information is quickly becoming the most valuable commodity, and I'm sure widespread cybercrime will lead to global political conflict.

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.

Compared to the average /. reader... I think you may actually be right.