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Hollywood-Funded Study Concludes Piracy Fosters Terrorism | Threat Level from Wired.com

 Hollywood-Funded Study Concludes Piracy Fosters Terrorism | Threat Level from Wired.com

Hollywood-Funded Study Concludes Piracy Fosters Terrorism

By David Kravets EmailMarch 03, 2009 | 5:46:54 PMCategories: Intellectual Property

Here's a startling coincidence: A study funded by Hollywood concludes movie piracy is hurting the industry and fostering terrorism.

The Motion Picture Association, the European counterpart to the Motion Picture Association of America, paid for the 182-page RAND Corp. study.

Here's a snippet from Film Piracy, Organized Crime, and Terrorism:

Moreover, three of the documented cases provide clear evidence that terrorist groups have used the proceeds of film piracy to finance their activities. While caution must be exercised in drawing broad conclusions from limited evidence, further investigation is a timely imperative. These cases, combined with established evidence for the broader category of counterfeiting-terrorism connections, are highly suggestive that intellectual-property theft — a low-risk, high-profit enterprise — is attractive not only to organized crime, but also to terrorists, particularly opportunistic members of local terrorist cells.

Last year, then-Attorney General Michael Mukasey uttered a similar view when he said intellectual property theft promoted terrorism.

Find the Rand report here.

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