April 7th, 2007

Music and movie piracy hunters go after privacy law

Dawn C. Chmielewski and Marc Lifsher, Los Angeles Times

The music and movie industries are lobbying state legislators for permission to deceive when pursuing suspected music pirates...

"I don't see why the recording industry shouldn't have to follow the same laws that everyone else follows," said Fred von Lohmann, senior staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital rights advocacy group in San Francisco. "It appears they want to make the loophole so big that nobody else has to follow the law, either."

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