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April 22, 2004
FBI Raids Public Schools in AZ (Jason Schultz)
Ok, so you tell me... is this a good use of our resources? The FBI won't listen when you have logs that prove that some hacker is trying to wreck your network (even if you're a relatively large company) but if you're the RIAA, they will SWOOP down upon even children to stop the heinous crime of, not terrorism, not bomb building, not planning assaults, or Columbine type massacres, but song swapping. It would be one thing if the FBI didn't have lots of other things to do, but when will this madness stop?
While the FBI has had trouble tracking down Osama Bin Laden and other terrorists, they appear to have had no problem locating and raiding another group of alleged lawbreakers: public school children.
Federal agents in Phoenix and elsewhere in the country raided schools and other targets in a national crackdown on pirated music CDs and movies.
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. It was among other places in Arizona and "quite a few other states" where sealed search warrants were served, the FBI said.
DOJ Press Release on the raids, which not surprisingly, doesn't mention that public school children were amongst the targets. [Copyfight]
Posted by mikki at April 22, 2004 07:11 PM
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