US goes global w/it's war on piracy to protect US entertainment businesses

US Government admits to helping the music business
War on terror becomes war on software pirates
By Nick Farrell: Friday 16 June 2006, 07:52

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Swedish authorities were hauled into an April meeting in Washington between the Swedes and the US government.

The State Department, the Department of Commerce and the US trade representative's office told visitors from the Swedish Ministry of Justice that it was harbouring one of the world's biggest Web sites for enabling the massive and unauthorized distribution of movies, music and games. MO< The Swedes carried out a raid which was about as popular in the country as a tax on sex. The site is still running.

Meanwhile the American government has also been opposing Russia's entry to the World Trade Organisation at the request of the anti-piracy groups, the Post says.

US government officials told the Post that it was in the national interest to work on behalf of Hollywood and other entertainment and intellectual property industries.

more:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=32457

Although a few papers picked up on the raid & basically recycled the MPAA press release, nobody was reporting on the role of the US governement (& the MPAA).

also from Inquirer.net:

IF YOU ARE the freedom fighters at The Pirate Bay, and you want to show your displeasure with the seemingly illegal ways your servers were seized at the behest of foreign corporations, how do you do it?

Easy, try tracerouting them. Nice one guys.



http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=32447

Part of their known strategy.

Throw all of the marbles at once and no one will be able to focus on any single one of them.