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The piracy/terrorism link has been used often before, an example: http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/03/21/1047749921225.html http://www.theage.com.au/artic

• dmix 9y ago
  > March 21 2003 Ah, back the in the MPAA hay-day when they still thought they had a chance: > Motion Picture Association of America head Jack Valenti - a leader of Hollywood's fight against piracy - continued the terrorism theme in his written submission to the hearing. > "September 11 changed the way Americans look at the world. It also changed the way American law enforcement looks at Intellectual Property crimes," wrote Valenti - borrowing from an November 2002 article in the Customs Service newsletter US Customs Today. Reminds me of this old comic: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/53/ed/12/53ed12786da279fbe85c1b868f491e91.jpg https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/53/ed/12/53ed12786... 14 years later and it's still a good political tactic.