p2pnet - rss feed: FBI raids Arizona schools
p2pnet.net News:- The entertainment industry has finally gone beyond the pale.
Yesterday, under the new, Hollywood-inspired Intellectual Property Task Force, FBI agents raided schools in Arizona, looking for ‘pirate’ music and movie contraband.
In what may have been part of a nation-wide action, “Agents poured through data and records at a computer command center for the Deer Valley School District in the northwest Valley and blocked the office from the public,” says an Arizona Republic story here.
“It was among other places in Arizona and ‘quite a few other states’ where sealed search warrants were served, the FBI said.”
The raids came on the same day Justice Department officials in Washington announced the creation of a new Intellectual Property Task Force to step up copyright enforcement.
“Some of the stolen copyrighted material being sought in the raids is suspected as having been distributed from overseas sources,” says the Republic. “The raids are reflective of a new effort by the Justice Department to treat copyright enforcement as a higher priority, something that motion-picture and music-industry officials have been urging.
“FBI agents raided the Deer Valley district’s Administration Services Center, just south of Deer Valley High School in Glendale, at 6 a.m. and stayed most of the day. The site houses the district’s information services and technology offices, essentially the ‘brains’ of the district’s computer system, said Timothy Tait, district spokesman.”
The report says school officials weren’t warned the raids were going to happen.
“We were very in the dark,” Tait is quoted as saying.
FBI spokesman Paul Bresson refused to comment on why the federal government was searching a school district’s system and wouldn’t identify other sites in Arizona or elsewhere that were served with warrants, says the story, gong on:
Tait is also quoted as saying, “It looks like the FBI is looking at actions of individuals within the district as opposed to the operations of the district,” Tait said.
April 22nd, 2004 at 6:02 pm
I’m so relieved the FBI is raiding public schools. I guess I need not worry about terrorist attacks then since they aparently have that under control and can spend their time enforcing copyright violations.
May 15th, 2004 at 9:40 pm
wow!what a waste of resources. protecting the filthy rich and their money,instead of worrying about protecting lives from terrorists and real criminals. oh i forgot. our government is not by the people etc. uncle sam specialyzes in big moneyand special interests.poor starving artists should know what real hunger is like so many in our country do.
June 1st, 2004 at 1:48 am
MOOo MOOO MaAaa MOOOOO
June 1st, 2004 at 1:49 am
ima cow
March 8th, 2005 at 11:07 pm
y can’t these people read the universal decralations of human rights
oh yea tehy sent Bolten to reform the UN UN attacks and kills 60 mostly women and children in Congo like usa does in iraq.
torture rutine and sactioned
somebody pull the jackel earmuffs of these pigoposist cogs and hand them the p2p manifesto proerty is theft and the univesal charter of human rights so they can see the gross violations conducted each day by authority ‘feeding my family just doing my job neo-facism’ yea… viva la resistance
go darknet baby!