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FBI Prioritizes Copyright Over Missing Persons
An anonymous reader writes "The FBI has limited resources, so it needs to prioritize what it works on. However, it's difficult to see why dealing with copyright infringement seems to get more attention than identity theft or missing persons. In the past year, the FBI has announced a special new task force to fight intellectual property infringement, but recent reports have shown that both identity theft and missing persons have been downgraded as priorities by the FBI, to the point that there are a backlog of such cases."
Hello Hollywood money in Obama's pocket...
Damn Bush and his stomping on rights and corporate pandering.
oh, wait...
(and BTW, BAWAHAHAHAHAHA! Suckers! You BELIEVED that Change bullshit?? Seriously? And you made fun of Bush's intelligence? Wow. Just.. wow)
Yeah, 'cause you have an exact knowledge of what comprises a "bad movie", and have control over how money is spent on such... as well as "pop music"... AND can perfectly define what "productive industry" is...
Seriously? He gets "+4 Insightful", for spouting such nonsense in one sentence?
Pardon me for just speaking up here, but, you're an idiot, IMHO.
Regards,
dj
I must disagree. Government exists to protect the people and the peoples' resources.
I find that to be a more "wishful thinking of a perfect world" purpose of government. The reality is much more along the lines of "Government exists so that a minority can use the threat of imprisonment and violence to force their will upon others".
I agree with the idea, I just realize that "theoretical" and "applied" aren't always the same thing.
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." ~Thomas Jefferson
"Collective rights"? People already have individual rights. Why should a corporation have greater rights than individual American citizens?
What right does a corporation have that an individual doesn't have? My concern here is that the movement to remove "personhood" (or similar anti-corporatist sentiments) from business corporations is really an attempt to neuter the rights of groups of people who happen to do business. That's why I'm concerned about the collective rights of people being violated.
He's at or near the top of every list of greatest US presidents. There's an effort now by the Right to re-write history, and say that "FDR was really an awful president. His administration didn't end the Great Depression." It's just more like the Texas School Board re-writing the text books and Conservapedia re-writing the Theory of Relativity. It's pure bullshit.
History and economics both have the problem that current interests profoundly influence our interpretation. For me, the key observation about FDR is that he was a modern Robin Hood. He robbed the productive to pay for his oligopolies, his labor unions, his bureaucracies, and other parasites of the time. He created the original US government pyramid scheme, Social Security, which remains on track to self-destruct in a few decades. If it wasn't for the resistance of Republicans, FDR might have well become a dictator.
As for the Great Depression, we were on track to recover from it in 1933 no matter what despite the monumental fuck ups of the Hoover administration. FDR's highly destructive economic policies screwed that up.
Obviously, this is relevant to current day because we have a would-be modern FDR, Obama who is trying a lot of the same bullshit that FDR got away with.