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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."
I've never seen people piss and moan more than around here. Maybe if you fags would pay for your music this wouldn't be an issue. Maybe you shouldn't be a bunch of fucking thieves. I know I would volunteer to work against copyright fraud because you fucks deserve the beat down.
.... until they are found
Perhaps ironically, this is an extremely common misconception. The actual and official aim of government is to preserve their control over people's liberty and have moron like Mike to vigorously defend them every time they can.
Just like how he repealed the PATRIOT Scam... I mean PATRIOT Act.
Where is your God now, liberals? He's got his dick firmly in your ass! Mwahahahaha!
It is hard to know the exact amount of money lost because of people who simply download EVERYTHING they need for free from sites like The Pirate Bay. One thing I do know is that the amount is absolutely massive.
I have been in rooms full of software engineers trading serial numbers and cracks for software that I know their bosses would have bought them a license for if they would have just asked for it.
When I need software I let my accountant contact know and they purchases a license with no problem at all. These other guys just download everything they want for free. It is fekkin ridiculous and yes, we are ourselves a software company.
Literally every professional I know right now illegally obtains every piece of software they need with no thought given to ever purchasing it. They go even further by openly helping other non-techie types get their shit for free. Right in front of everyone in a conference room during a break in the meeting, a lady supervisor brought her MacBook in so this loud mouth engineer could get MS Office installed and cracked for free. W T F ? ? ? They sat there and did it in front of like 10 people like it was nothing!
The problem is WAY out of hand regardless of what you heard from some Slashtard. It costs the U.S. and other countries countless good jobs from lost revenue.
It also pushes us further towards web-based software as a service applications that absolutely suck compared to their off-line counterparts. Companies creating these web-based applications, like Google, have absolutely no respect for personal privacy and are making out like bandits with the situation.
Without trade civilization is impossible. There is no distinction between protecting trade and protecting people.
Negative moral value of force outweighs the positive value of good intentions.
There is a free market of investigative agencies. You can look them up in yellow pages under private investigators.
Negative moral value of force outweighs the positive value of good intentions.
Or had a brain