According to the Beeb, The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) says intellectual property crime should be higher on the police's agenda. BPI claims that CD piracy cost the industry £165m in lost revenue during 2005. However, a Boing Boing reader makes a solid counterpoint. "Since police resources are finite, I think we should hold them to account on this one, by insisting that they expand on that by telling us *exactly* what offences should be positioned *lower* on the police's agenda to make resources available."
The BPI admits as much about police resources in it's request, BPI chairman Peter Jamieson said the police and trading standards officers did a "superb job in difficult and dangerous circumstances", and said police were operating with "very limited resources". Jamieson howver offered no explination as to how the police could continue to effectively protect the public while devoting more resorses to protecting the BPI member companies business models.
[via BBC]
