Interpol chief says warez/music piracy supports terrorism

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: "David P. Reed" <dpreed () reed com>
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 09:50:54 -0400
To: Richard Forno <rforno () infowarrior org>, dave () farber net, ip
<ip () v2 listbox com>
Subject: Re: [IP] Interpol chief says warez/music piracy supports terrorism

Interpol deserves close inspection.  They are also claiming in widely
distributed documentary radio programs (featured on NPR at least once) that
"snuff pornography" is an international conspiracy that can be controlled
by face recognition technology that can reliably scan all images on the
Internet to match faces with the subjects of pornographic films.  They are
calling for unprecedented power to spy on all content served on the
Internet to counter this alleged menace.

Since Interpol doesn't serve under much scrutiny, and has almost no
accountability, it's a potential great place for the paranoid to carry out
their own "government-sponsored" terrorism over private citizens.  This new
piece worries me even more.

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