Friday, June 15, 2007

"Piracy," not burglary should be law enforcement's priority, says Big Media

From Ars Technica:
"Our law enforcement resources are seriously misaligned," Cotton said. "If you add up all the various kinds of property crimes in this country, everything from theft, to fraud, to burglary, bank-robbing, all of it, it costs the country $16 billion a year. But intellectual property crime runs to hundreds of billions [of dollars] a year." Cotton's comments come in Paul Stweeting's report on Hollywood's latest shenanigans on Capitol Hill.
Just what we need... more bank robberies and burglaries, less sharing of online music. Give me a break. Exactly the kind of delusions, greed and illogical argumentation that I would expect from the industry that, as Ars Technica puts it, "defines solipsism."