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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."
Next time I'm kidnapped; I'll be sure to start pirating music and movies. Maybe they'll find me!
Identity theft and missing persons aren't costing $500 billion a year, are they?
Lacking <sarcasm> tags,
Does the FBI know how many missing persons may have disappeared carring ipods with hundreds, even thousands, of tracks being illicitly enjoyed by their captors, even as we speak, in various isolated cabins, underground dungeons, and seedy motels all around america?
How could they be so blind?
Precisely. Missing people don't pay their bills.
"The true measure of a person is how they act when they know they won't get caught." - DSRilk
Kill all birds with one stone.
1) Every person should be copyrighted
2) Any missing person should be considered abducted and cross filed under copyright theft
3) Any person that has gone missing should be cross filed under identity theft as it could be an abduction, copyright abduction / theft, and a missing person at the same time.
I could find sarcastic ways to connect ident theft & copyrights to possibility of missing persons but I'm lazy.
Dammit, I enclosed my (/sarcasm) tag in brackets and it disappeared.
And now, stupid Slashdot is telling me I'm posting comments too quickly.
At the FBI, we take customer service seriously.
Missing persons who wish to file a customer service complaint can contact us via telephone, email or postal address:
http://www.fbi.gov/contactus.htm
We value your feedback. Have a nice day.
what an asshole
WHO IS JOHN GALT?
Indeed.
Just hope your kidnappers use a copyrighted font in the ransom note that they didn't properly license. That should get the FBI on your case.
Eggs
Milk
Bread
Cat Litter
Soda
It's called "Intellectual Property" because you only think you own it.
Any insufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.
The kidnappers would never let you do that. Even terrorists would never torrent! I mean they're bad, but they're not that bad!
missing people do not have a powerful lobby
If they could find their lobby, they'd practically be home.
If libertarians are so opposed to effective government, why don't they all move to Somalia?
Corporate citizens more important than actual citizens.
Impounded bootleg film at 11.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
So, is it "MaFBIaa" now?
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