FC: Washington Post op-ed links terrorists to pirated software, CDs

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

Excerpt from the op-ed by Roslyn Mazer, associate deputy attorney general 
and criminal division special counsel for intellectual property under Clinton:

>  Recent developments suggest that many of the governments suspected of 
> supporting al Qaeda are also promoting, being corrupted by, or at the 
> very least ignoring highly lucrative trafficking in counterfeit and 
> pirated products capable of generating huge money flows to terrorists and 
> other organized criminal groups.
> While serving in the Criminal Division at the Department of Justice from 
> 1998 to 2001, I helped catalogue disturbing trends in this area. With 
> cooperation from our copyright and trademark industries -- the producers 
> of software, music, film, books, apparel, pharmaceuticals and other highly 
> sought-after American products -- we documented the links between 
> intellectual property (IP) crimes and the even more nefarious crimes they 
> pay for.

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From: Roslynmazer () aol com
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 08:41:47 EDT
Subject: Terrorism and Counterfeiting
To: declan () well com

Declan,

Your readers may be interested in this article from yesterday's Washington 
Post.
Regards from a grateful subscriber,

Roslyn

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43957-2001Sep29.html




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