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Australian Police DVD Embarassment
« on: April 07, 2008, 08:18:51 am »
It seems even the police are in on the action  :shock:

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23495134-5006787,00.html

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Hundreds of police officers across South Australia caught using their work computers to illegally copy movie DVDs will escape prosecution.
The activity - strictly banned under federal copyright laws - was detected during an audit conducted by the information technology branch of SA Police.
Senior police, including Commissioner Mal Hyde, have been briefed on the extent of the problem.

An internal email to police management said the audit had "identified a number of instances where commercial DVD movies have been copied to the hard-drives of police computers which potentially had been burnt to blank DVDs".
"This practice is potentially a breach of copyright and misuse of SAPOL equipment," it said.

"Branch managers are requested to take measures to ensure this practice must not occur and to remind members (officers) of the policies relating to the use of SAPOL computer equipment."
Police sources have told The Advertiser an official investigation, which could lead to criminal charges, will not be conducted because of the large number of police officers involved in copying DVDs.



Whilst this is funny on the surface we must appreciate for a moment the two teired societywe live in where so called law enforcement officials are given a blank cheque to break the law and ordinary citizens are heavily fined, strange old world ... :roll:

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