One day I set out to buy a used piece of software (since I couldn’t afford it new) and found a seller. This seller was asking an okay price that I was to pay for with a money order. I get one of these for the amount, send it off and in return I get.. O! Not what I paid for but a badly copied non-commercial CD-ROM of the software, a sheet of paper with a hastily scribbled registration number and no manual! What a surprise! Well, seeing as how I could barely contain my joy, I took all of this and any relevant information (the person’s supposed name, mailing address, email, etc.) down to the local police station. Upon showing all of this to both the Sergeant and the Lieutenant, I found that they (gasp) (and pardon my french) didn’t give a flying shit in the wind about it! Isn’t that great?
So here I was, presenting the police with a real live intellectual property pirate right here in the US of A, handfuls of evidence and even an ADDRESS where I sent the money order to. Not only did the police not care at the time but they never did anything about it. Ever. So all this BS about law enforcement and other government agencies being so concerned about piracy and intellectual theft is just that, bullshit with a capital B. It’s all about greed and control.