DOJ Gives $4M in Grants to Law Enforcement for Piracy Fight

October 1, 2010

The Justice Department announced this week that Law enforcement agencies throughout the United States would receive almost $4 million in grants to fight intellectual property infringement. Police departments and District Attorneys in California, North Carolina, Florida, New York, Mississippi, Virginia and Texas will get a chunk of the money, according to The Wrap.

The Los Angeles Police Department, the Los Angeles County Sherriff's Department, the National Crime Prevention Council, the National Association of Attorneys General, and the National White Collar Crime Center were also on the list to receive grant money.

The Motion Picture Association of America was supportive of the grant money, for obvious reasons:

"The motion picture industry, along with all U.S. creative industries, leads the U.S. economy in contributing to job growth, and protecting the economic engine these industries represent from theft is critical," MPAA president and interim CEO Bob Pisano said.

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Re: DOJ Gives $4M in Grants to Law Enforcement for Piracy ...

Submitted by ZippyDSMlee on Fri, 10/01/2010 - 18:27.

This is a waste of time money effort.....

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Re: DOJ Gives $4M in Grants to Law Enforcement for Piracy ...

Submitted by DorkmasterFlek on Fri, 10/01/2010 - 07:44.

Well this is utter crap. Not only are they using taxpayer money to enforce the outdated business models of private corporations, but they're effectively bribing the police to do it. Police agencies have consistently said that they have better things to do than chase after copyright infringers, like you know, catch murders and rapists.

Re: DOJ Gives $4M in Grants to Law Enforcement for Piracy ...

Submitted by hellfire7885 on Fri, 10/01/2010 - 11:32.

Not to mention copyright holders treat their infringement as worse than those afformentioned crimes.

"Oh no, someone didn't pay 99 cents for that song, call the police, mobilize SWAT!!!!"

"Help, I've been raped!"

"Get in line princess, my wallet is in danger"

Re: DOJ Gives $4M in Grants to Law Enforcement for Piracy ...

Submitted by Thad on Fri, 10/01/2010 - 10:50.

Moreover, copyright enforcement is supposed to be the domain of the FBI, not local PD's.

Re: DOJ Gives $4M in Grants to Law Enforcement for Piracy ...

Submitted by ZippyDSMlee on Fri, 10/01/2010 - 18:27.

Meh they have subed it out to ICE since they are not picking up many illegals these days. . .

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ZippyDSMlee: Something I did by hand on my convertiable laptop, http://zippydsmlee.deviantart.com/art/Cotlop-zelda-unfinished-sketch-WIP-finish-373937163 forgot if I posted it befor.06/19/2013 - 7:44pm

Conster: Also, I guess The War Z changed its name so they can scam some more people?06/19/2013 - 7:44pm

Conster: AE: when even HuffPo makes the same joke, it's not something you want to take credit for. :P06/19/2013 - 7:43pm

Andrew Eisen: Hey look! The War Z changed its name to Infestation: Survivor Stories. http://infestationmmo.com/06/19/2013 - 7:23pm

Andrew Eisen: You're going to have a lot of company in prison, RedMage. Most of the internet has stolen MY joke. Bastards!06/19/2013 - 7:06pm

RedMage: The cover art thing points to an industry trend of only wanting to appeal to teen boys despite the talk of "broadening the appealz"06/19/2013 - 6:17pm

RedMage: I'd like to turn myself in for unintentional theft of a joke. Ignorance of the law is no excuse :o06/19/2013 - 6:17pm

Andrew Eisen: Remember the fight to get Last of Us's Ellie on the game cover? Check this out: http://cheezburger.com/758618624006/19/2013 - 6:12pm

Andrew Eisen: RedMage - Thief! You stole my joke! You're a horrible, loathesome person! Or you simply had the same idea and didn't read my earlier shout!06/19/2013 - 5:35pm

RedMage: Maybe they're going to rename it the Xbox 18006/19/2013 - 5:26pm

IanC: Bet EA are pissed.06/19/2013 - 5:17pm

Andrew Eisen: Ah, James is just a little quicker on the keyboard than I!06/19/2013 - 5:07pm

Craig R.: Too little, too late.06/19/2013 - 4:52pm

DorthLous: PWAHAHAHAH, the MS spinning sound woke me up :)06/19/2013 - 4:27pm

Andrew Eisen: Microsoft's new console shall now be known as the Xbox One-Eighty.06/19/2013 - 4:17pm

Andrew Eisen: I imagine we were typing our respective shouts at the same time.06/19/2013 - 4:14pm

MaskedPixelante: So Andrew... is there going to be a new poll now? I mean, the one about the XBO DRM is kinda no longer relevant.06/19/2013 - 4:13pm

Andrew Eisen: In light of Xbox One's furious backpeddling on its DRM policies, I'm closing the poll for now. I'll probably write a new one later today or tomorrow.06/19/2013 - 4:11pm

IanC: Found three people whining about this so far. Saying that its because of cheapasses and that its going to be horrible online now. W T and indeed F.06/19/2013 - 4:09pm

Andrew Eisen: Technogeek - I agree but: "After a one-time system set-up with a new Xbox One, you can play any disc based game without ever connecting online again." Why do I need to connect online to set up a system I'm not going to use online?06/19/2013 - 4:07pm

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