Texan Congressman John Carter is reported as saying at a Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property, that:
“I think it’d be a good idea to go out and actually bust a couple of these college kids… If you want to see college kids duck and run, you let them read the papers and somebody’s got a 33-month sentence in the federal penitentiary for downloading copyrighted materials.”
At the same event an even more worrying comments came from John G. Malcolm, the deputy assistant attorney general in the criminal division of the U.S. Department of Justice. Malcolm said that “For too long, people engaged in piracy believed that if they were outside the borders of the United States, they could violate our intellectual property laws with impunity,” Malcolm continued by saying “They were wrong. This indictment and the extradition sends a clear and unequivocal message to everybody involved in illegal piracy that regardless of where you are, the Justice Department will find you, investigate you, arrest you, prosecute you, and incarcerate you.”
Could the US government be handing out extradition orders for file sharers around the globe? Images of dozens if not hundreds of handcuffed file sharers from around the globe being dragged of Air Planes, being dragged off to face the wrath of American Justice come to mind. These and other interesting quotes can be read at IDG.NET
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