Justice Department Announces New Intellectual Property Task Force as Part of Broad IP Enforcement In

[douglas9]

Attorney General Eric Holder today announced the formation of a new Department of Justice Task Force on Intellectual Property as part of a Department-wide initiative to confront the growing number of domestic and international intellectual property (IP) crimes.

"The rise in intellectual property crime in the United States and abroad threatens not only our public safety but also our economic wellbeing. The Department of Justice must confront this threat with a strong and coordinated response," said Attorney General Holder. "This Task Force will allow us to identify and implement a multi-faceted strategy with our federal, state and international partners to effectively combat this type of crime."

The Attorney General’s announcement follows a summit meeting convened last December by Vice President Biden, a long-standing champion of U.S. intellectual property rights-holders. At that meeting, which was attended by Attorney General Holder and other cabinet heads, the Vice President discussed the importance of stronger enforcement and supported actions to raise the priority of combating IP theft and improving coordination -- including the establishment of an intellectual property task force at the Department of Justice.

"Theft of intellectual property does significant harm to our economy and endangers the health and safety of our citizens," said Vice President Biden. "This administration is committed to stronger and stricter enforcement of intellectual property rights, and this new task force is a step in the right direction."

http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2010/February/10-ag-137.html

[thunder rising]

1. Holder is a winger. "intellectual property (IP) crimes." and can't prosecute the hard crimes

What does significant damage to this country is not regulating and prosecuting the Banksters. Not, collecting a tax from them as they go about sucking the money out of our homes and bank accounts and depressing this economy. Watch, they'll arrest some high school kid for downloading while the white white supremacists and christian right go about terrorizing abortion clinics (and attacking pregnant women).

But, let's instead focus on "Intellectual Property Theft" ... anybody see a distraction?

[Art_from_Ark]

2. Or they'll arrest the single mother of some high school kid

for "letting" her kid download

They way things are going, everybody will end up being some sort of "criminal"

[leftofcool]

3. Yep, Johnny Frat Boy downloads

some songs to his puter and gets arrested for it while the bank steals money from his parents account (disquised as "fees" for whatever)and nobody cares.

[mmonk]

4. +1

[thunder rising]

5. What do Holder and Kaine have in common ... ineffective management skills and protected by Obama

[Don Caballero]

6. I like this move by Holder

He understands that the intellectual property of artists is vital to the growth of our culture. If everyone can just steal whatever they want and the artist is never rewarded financially, the culture will die off.