Just when you thought the global media mafia had woken up to the stupidity of trying to mislead consumers and lawmakers we see yet another bseless claim exposed as lies.
http://torrentfreak.com/australian-mafia-to-sell-dvds-080701/“DVD and other piracy can now be more profitable than drug trafficking,” AFACT’s director of operations Neil Gane told The Australian. “That’s why crime organizations are going into it.”
Despite a trawl of the websites and press releases put out by the two organizations (the other being Foxtel), there is only one recent link between drugs and ‘piracy’ and that is the prosecution of ONE MAN just over a month ago, for cultivating cannabis, and what is described as ‘multiple copyright offenses’.
So, we’ve gone from one guy, with 3,300 movies+TV shows and growing some cannabis (total punishment, 7 month suspended sentence, and a 2 year good behavior order) to Organized Crime. Despite the utter failure of the similar campaign in the UK years earlier (where the only thing remaining of the campaign is the ‘You wouldn’t steal a…” advert) Australia seems determined to try and make it work.
As this article points out quite simply, this is a standard propaganda campaign used to impress lawmakers and politicians into passing unjust laws against their citizens. Criminal claims of this magnitude should be proven openly with supporting evidence of the claim, what we are seeing here is the usual lie, mislead, and repeat lie campaign designed to shift the burden of cost from the Cartel chasing up very minor copyright infringement cases and passing the cost onto the police and Australian taxpayers, all in the name of some ficticious criminal network.
The only criminal network I,m aware of are the Cartel members who sponsor online attacks against sites and people who show alternatives to their distribution monopoly, perhaps the Australian police should look into that sort of "organised" crime.
