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FBI, DoJ Add 35 Positions For Intellectual Property Battle

Posted by Soulskill on from the brought-to-you-by-the-**aa dept.

coondoggie writes "The FBI and Department of Justice said they were going to go hard after intellectual property crimes this year and so far they seem to be keeping their word, as today the agencies appointed 15 new Assistant US Attorney (AUSA) positions and 20 FBI Special Agents dedicated to fighting domestic and international IP crimes. The 15 new AUSAs will work closely with the Criminal Division's Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section to aggressively pursue high tech crime, including computer crime and intellectual property offenses. The new positions will be located in California, the District of Columbia, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, and Washington. The 20 FBI Special Agents will be deployed to specifically boost four geographic areas with intellectual property squads, and increase investigative capacity in other locations around the country where intellectual property crimes are of particular concern. The four squads will be located in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and the District of Columbia."

2 of 140 comments (clear)

  1. $government++ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    $government++

  2. China messing with DNS again? by Yvan256 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Anyone else getting redirects to http://frodocomeon.net/ since this morning?
    (such as http://frodocomeon.net/in.cgi?12 which loads a fake virus-scanning page, Windows XP style)

    P.S. to moderators: yes this is off-topic but please don't mod down so people can see the post and reply.