[LINK] It's Queensland - (sorry to Qlders)

[Ash Nallawalla]

If the Queensland Police continue to think in that vein, then anyone
watching a YouTube video taken from a copyright source is likely to be
arrested. They should be cutting their teeth checking out the $5 big-brand
software sold at swap meets across the country, where the buyers are
"knowingly" receiving stolen goods.

Ash

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jan Whitaker

> This is crazy. The original reporting was bad. The Police announcement was
> bad. The "arrest" was 'bad'. Anything else?
> 
> Facebook 'break-ins': police say receiving photos like taking stolen TVs
> 
>   Asher Moses
>   May 18, 2011 - 12:35PM
> 
> Receiving a photograph obtained from a Facebook account without the
> user's permission is the same as receiving a stolen TV, Queensland Police
> have said after the arrest of a Fairfax journalist.
> 
> The head of the Queensland police fraud squad, Brian Hay, admitted this
> morning that police were "still cutting our teeth" in the rapidly evolving
> online environment and named cyber crime as the biggest law-enforcement
> challenge.