“ The International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA), which represents most of the entertainment industry’s biggest players, also wants to see a chilling expansion of law enforcement involvement in copyright enforcement, including:
* empowering government agents to prosecute alleged infringements, whether or not a copyright owner has actually complained;
* expanded “information sharing” between copyright owners and law enforcement, including border officials, i.e., a direct two-way pipeline between Big Media and the cops;
* issuance and execution of search warrants without notice to the alleged infringer.
* empowering government agents to prosecute alleged infringements, whether or not a copyright owner has actually complained;
* expanded “information sharing” between copyright owners and law enforcement, including border officials, i.e., a direct two-way pipeline between Big Media and the cops;
* issuance and execution of search warrants without notice to the alleged infringer.
