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Anti-Piracy PI Talks About Building Cases Against File-Sharers
An anonymous reader writes "Torrent Freak has an interesting interview with a former private investigator who was hired to track people who pirated software and movies. He relates some of the tactics used to make evidence more appealing to police, the media and lawmakers. He said, 'We discussed the formula for extrapolating the potential street value earnings of "laboratories" and we were instructed to count all blank discs in our seizure figures as if they were potential product. Mr. Gane also explained that the increased loss approximation figures were derived from all forms of impacts on decreasing cinema patronage right through to the farmer who grows the corn for popping.' Regarding the head of AFACT, the article notes, 'Gane understood that the media was an essential tool towards AFACT's goal of getting tougher copyright legislation in place. And for this purpose, it was a good idea to bend the truth a bit.'"
I have an unpopular comment to make about this:
"The Holocaust." Not saying the Jewish people of europe weren't treated horribly -- they were -- it was probably among the largest crimes against humanity the world has ever seen. But many of the details are either lies or huge exaggerations and the holocaust museums and organizations are acknowledging this as they remove various claims from their piles of evidence.
When I see crap like this, I see more of the same. The victims wanted to see the people who did it punished with death. They saw that it happened and it did not matter to them how outrageous the claims they made might have been. "Killed more Jews than ever existed in Europe?" "Loss of more money than the nation's GDP?" Yeah... the tactics fit.
I know the fate of even mentioning things like this... the message gets lost because the topic is verboten.