Bush creates high-level anti-piracy post

[ConfuZed]

Senior position to target global piracy and counterfeiting, which costs US companies billions.

July 22, 2005: 12:49 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush has created a new senior-level position to fight global intellectual-property piracy and counterfeiting that cost American companies billions of dollars each year, Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez said Friday.

"Intellectual-property theft is a major problem around the world. We believe that it is costing U.S. businesses about $250 billion in lost sales," Gutierrez told Reuters in an interview with reporters and editors.

Bush has tapped Chris Israel, currently deputy chief of staff for Gutierrez, to head up the administration's anti-piracy efforts. China -- where 90 percent of music and movies are pirate copies -- will be a chief priority, Gutierrez said.

"Frankly, our goal is to reduce (China's piracy levels) to zero," Gutierrez said. He declined to specify a timetable, but acknowledged it could be a lengthy effort...<More>

http://money.cnn.com/2005/07/22/news/international/piracy_usa.reut/index.htm

[DBoon]

1. Avast ye mateys!

nt

[catnhatnh]

2. ARRRGGHHHH,

....Curse the SCURVY DOG-ain't he supposed to be makin' terrorists walk the plank???

[Tux]

3. LOL

Good luck.

AAAARRRRGGGG! Scurvy sea dogs, that be fine treasure yonder. Let's take it.

Oops, sorry. Confused coyright pirates with corporate whores over Iraq.

[uhhuh]

4. What's next?

Does this idiot EVER stop creating new departments and agencies?

Smaller government, eh?

Pretty soon we'll have the Secretary of Karl Rove's Underwear Drawer.

And no timetable to reduce piracy either...I'm sure this is just more Federal welfare for chimp friends and donors.

[54anickel]

5. So how much of our tax money is going to this new effort to save

U.S. businesses about $250 billion in lost sales?

Of the corporation, for the corporation, by the corporation.

[Neshanic]

6. "Polly wants a service pack!" Brawwwk

[Demeter]

7. Meanwhile BushCo Sponsored Piracy at Home and Abroad Grow

Can you say Iraq? How about Social Security? Campaign finance reform? Election reform? How about the Constitution and the Bill of Rights?

"DICK. Ah, it's a queer world!

RALPH. Dick Deadeye, I have no desire to press hardly on you, but such a revolutionary sentiment is enough to make an honest sailor shudder."



---H.M.S. Pinafore, Wm. S. Gilbert

[Zorra]

8. Finally. Bu*h has surrounded himself with butt pirates for years. n/t