Two Birmingham Men Are Arrested By UK's New Intellectual Property Crime Unit 201
cervesaebraciator writes "The Guardian reports that the Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit has arrested two men from Birmingham and have seized 'suspected counterfeit DVD box sets worth around £40,000, including titles such as Game of Thrones, CSI and Vampire Diaries.' The claim is that the men were buying foreign counterfeit copies and selling them online as genuine. London police commissioner Adriad Leppard offers commentary indicative of the thinking behind these efforts, saying, 'Intellectual property crime is already costing our economy hundreds of millions of pounds a year and placing thousands of jobs under threat, and left unchecked and free to feed on new technology could destroy some of our most creative and productive industries.' The article offers £51 billion as an estimate for the cost of illegal downloading to the music, film, and software industry, a figure they say will triple by 2015."
Meanwhile, Netflix is paying attention to piracy via torrent sites as well. The difference is that they're using that data to decide what shows they should buy.
Re:i don't get it (Score:5, Funny)
They were selling a product that people decided to buy. All they had to do was copy the original data over and over, so no theft was involved; there were no damages.
I can't stand hypocrites who think that selling copyrighted works is magically harmful, but copying it freely is not. Either you are pro-freedom or you are not; if you support copyright, you support censorship and the loss of control over private property.
Oookay. Now I can conclude that the views on piracy of some people here really have reached insane levels.
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