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October 4, 2011 09:05 am
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/s-yoE6UzeMw/Anti-Piracy-PI-Talks-About-Building-Cases-Against-File-Sharers
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.'"
at Slashdot.
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/s-yoE6UzeMw/Anti-Piracy-PI-Talks-About-Building-Cases-Against-File-Sharers
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