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FBI Prioritizes Copyright Over Missing Persons

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the well-that-makes...-something dept.

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."

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  1. No need to ask by airfoobar · · Score: 5, Informative

    Missing persons haven't spent millions in lobbying, while the copyright industries have. It's distressing how easy governments are to buy these days, and the US seems to be doing its absolute worst lately -- they are almost dropping all pretence and simply doing what the corporate masters tell them to do.

  2. Federalism 101 by westlake · · Score: 5, Informative

    The FBI exists to protect profits. In fact the government exists to protect commerce, the very basis of our society

    In the American federal system, tracking down missing persons is traditionally a local and state responsibility, prosecuting economic and property crimes that have a national and constitutiobal dimension a federal responsibility.

    The FBI has 60 active Kidnapping and Missing Persons Investigations

    This may give a clearer idea of how small the FBI role in such cases really is.