Report Links Piracy to Drugs, Weapons, and the Mafia; Calls for U.S. SiteBlocking
News Source : Torrentfreak.com
News Summary
- A new report by the Digital Citizens Alliance and IP House argues that piracy has become more organized and sophisticated over the years.
- In some cases, it has been linked to other criminal elements, including drugs, weapons, and the mafia.
- The report cites more than a dozen recent enforcement actions to argue that today’s pirate streaming networks meet the formal definitions of organized crime set by Interpol, Europol and the UN.
- It also calls for site-blocking legislation and urges Congress to act.
Links between piracy and organized crime have been around for several decades. The framing first emerged in the late 1990s, when the IFPI raised concerns about transborder smuggling of pirated CDs [+7455 chars]
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