MPAA and FBI Help To Train Swedish Police 165
Several readers let us know about a program in which a US FBI agent and employees of the MPAA led a seminar for Swedish police officers in methods of finding and stopping illegal downloading from the Internet. The writer at zeropaid.com says, "I bet the Swedish people are going to love to find out that the US government and a US lobbying group now have a hand in training their police personnel. So much for the notion of national sovereignty." Reader Oxygen provided a bit of translation from an article in Swedish on IDG.se: "According to Bertil Ramsell, responsible for the course, the purpose of the visit was to give the invited speakers a chance to explain to the students what their organization's purpose was. But in a report from the IIPA, the purpose was to educate students in anti-piracy."
UK children (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Good article, trolling comment- (Score:5, Interesting)
What the big fuss is about, is that the Swedish police is tacitly agreeing that it will follow FBI:s and MPAA:s anti-piracy policies and do their dirty work for them. Which means do everything they can to shut down thepiratebay.
Re:Revolution (Score:2, Interesting)
The only people that took away your rights was yourselves.
Wake up.
So ? You swedish are going to let this slide ? (Score:3, Interesting)
There are no news around to that extent yet. We are waiting to see some swedish democracy in action.
Re:Revolution (Score:3, Interesting)
stupid thinking (Score:5, Interesting)
NO, its the corporates that control things...like the mass media, party funding, and so on.
Re:Uh (Score:5, Interesting)
Is it a law? Or it's an abuse?
Re:Wrong perception in the USA (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Comment from the Pirat Party (Score:2, Interesting)
Isnt it also curious that FBI spares resources (Score:3, Interesting)
Very curious that, one important government agency can spare resources to spend for a PRIVATE organisation's whims, whereas there are army units deployed in iraq, afghanistan, pakistan is battling a lot of internation terrorist organisations trying to get roots in there, and terrorists are constantly trying to sneak into major western countries ?
Either they are screwing us over terrorist threat level, or they are screwing us over our taxes.
I'm Swedish and I think like this: (Score:2, Interesting)
A) Copying IS NOT stealing.
B) As long as the people that made the data that is being copied has a roof over their head and food to eat they can't complain too much. If they have more they should just STFU.
C) A pirate is not bad if he does not use copied content to make money. Pirates that profit is however an issue to talk about.
D) We live and die. If somebody copies a file in order to increase their life's value I say go ahead and let him. It's all about making people's life better, right...?
E) Piracy does absolutely not mean that nobody will go to the movies anymore or buy them. If it somehow does a new legal distribution system needs to be arranged.
F) If you can afford it and want to support the people behind it, and if you are not lazy at the time, go ahead and purchase the item in question.
That is just my brain however. Maybe it can be yours too?
Justice? (Score:2, Interesting)