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N.Y. Times: Hong Kong Recruits Boy Scouts to be Internet Copyright Police

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on July 18, 2006 - 12:23pm.
New York - The New York Times reported on Tuesday on a new program in Hong Kong that will recruit 200,000 youths from groups like the Boy Scouts to monitor Internet discussion groups, and report people uploading copyrighted materials to customs officials. The reports will then be forwarded to the Motion Picture Association of America and International Federation of the Phonographic Industry. "We are not trying to manipulate youths and get them into the spy profession. What we are just trying to do is arouse a civic conscience to report crimes to the authorities," Tam Yiu-keung, the Hong Kong Excise and Customs Department's senior superintendent of customs for intellectual property investigations, told The Times.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/18/arts/18pira.html

tags: Internet | Video | Piracy | Music | Asia | MPAA | Copyright | Law Enforcement | Hong Kong | Boy Scouts |



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