[free-sklyarov] [declan@well.com: FC: Sen. Hatch "commends" DOJ for Sklyarov arrest, IP prosecutions]

Tue Jul 31 16:23:59 PDT 2001

this says absolutely nothing - in typical fashion!

i do find the confusion between the computer
infrastruction and intellectual property interesting
and probably part of dmitry's difficulty

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> From: Declan McCullagh <declan at well.com>
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> arrest, IP prosecutions
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> This is an excerpt from transcript of Monday's
> hearing of the Senate 
> Judiciary committee. "Free Sklyarov" activists had
> hoped that the case 
> would be brought up during the confirmation
> hearings, but I suspect this 
> isn't what they had in mind. Robert Mueller, of
> course, is President Bush's 
> pick to be FBI director.
> 
> Info on hearing:
> http://judiciary.senate.gov/hr073001f.htm
> 
> Politech archive on U.S. v. Sklyarov:
>
http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=sklyarov
> 
> Politech archive on DMCA:
>
http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=dmca
> 
> "Congress is more than doubling number of federal
> copyright cops"
> http://www.politechbot.com/p-02321.html
> 
> -Declan
> 
> *********
> 
>     SEN. HATCH: One of the areas of prosecution for
> which you are particularly
> known is that of computer and intellectual-property
> crime. As U.S. attorney for
> the northern district of California, you created a
> section called the Computer
> Hacking and Intellectual Property, or CHIP. Recently
> Attorney General Ashcroft
> recognized your success in the most sincere and
> flattering way possible by
> announcing the formation of nine additional CHIPs
> units around the country. And
> as you know, a subset of this area, criminal
> copyright enforcement, is of key
> importance to this committee. We've devoted
> considerable energy over the past
> number of years to Internet enforcement in
> particular.
> 
>     In 1997, we enacted the No Electronic Theft, or
> the NET Act, combining
> criminal penalties for certain non-commercial
> Internet pirates. In 1998, we
> passed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, or the
> DMCA it's called, which
> helps combat trafficking and hacking devices
> designed to defeat technological
> protections for copyrighted material. We also
> enacted the Digital Theft
> Deterrence and Copyright Damages Improvement Act to
> speed the implementation of
> the NET Act and to improve on-line theft deterrence
> generally. And we have even
> earmarked additional funding for DOJ specifically
> for the investigation and
> prosecution of cyber-crime.
> 
>     The committee's work is starting to bear fruit
> in the form of criminal
> prosecutions of Internet piracy. So far this year,
> the number of NET Act
> prosecutions appears to be up, and we have just
> recently seen the first 
> criminal
> prosecutions brought under the DMCA. Just this week,
> the Department of Justice
> announced a series of new prosecutions of Internet
> crimes.
> 
>     I commended the Department of Justice for what I
> hope is a commitment to
> cyber-crime enforcement, and I hope this becomes a
> priority for the FBI as 
> well.
> Would you please outline for us, if you can, your
> plan as FBI director on
> protecting the nation's computer infrastructure and
> intellectual property?
> 
>     MR. MUELLER: If I may go back briefly to what I
> saw when I took over as 
> U.S.
> attorney in San Francisco. We had Silicon Valley in
> my district, and one of the
> great issues was how do you protect -- or how do you
> not protect, but how 
> do you
> combat high-tech crime?
> 
>     And the first thing I had to do was determine
> what do you mean by high-tech
> crime, and I came to the conclusion that it should
> be broken down in four ways:
> First of all, computer intrusions, denial-of-
> service attacks; secondly, theft
> of intellectual property, economic espionage; third,
> frauds on the Internet,
> distribution of child pornography on the Internet;
> and fourthly, the theft of
> high-tech components such as computer chips, hard
> drives and the like, all of
> which are critical to the high-tech industry.
> 
>     We put together a unit in San Francisco and in
> San Jose because it was
> important to develop the expertise in the United
> States attorneys, the 
> assistant
> United States attorneys, who would be handling these
> cases. It was important
> that we develop the relationship between the FBI
> agents, who had the expertise
> to do these cases, the assistant United States
> attorneys who were doing these
> cases, and the community.
> 
>     In addressing high-tech crime, it is critically
> important that we 
> develop the
> relationships with those victims of high-tech crime
> in the high-tech industry.
> And consequently, we will support -- should I be
> confirmed as the director of
> the FBI, the FBI will support not only the unit that
> was set up in the northern
> district of California, but also the other units to
> be set up, announced by the
> attorney general last week.
> 
>     One other point I might make, and this goes to
> the issue of working closely
> with the state and local authorities. There are too
> few investigators with the
> skills we need to address this. And one of the
> developments that has been 
> useful
> is what has been known or called a computer
> forensics lab, which was 
> established
> in San Diego with a number of contributing
> participating agencies, both federal
> and local. And it is that type of combined
> enterprise that we are going to have
> to adopt if we are to address this new wave of
> separate technological crime in
> the future.
> 
>     SEN. HATCH: Thank you. Mr. Mueller, as you know,
> the 2002 Winter 
> Olympics in
> Salt Lake City, they're going to be the largest
> planned public safety and law
> enforcement in our country in the foreseeable
> future. The law enforcement
> community, including the FBI, has been working on
> the plans and 
> preparations for
> several years.
> 
> [...] 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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