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Article posted Dec 01 2011, 6:33 AM Category: Big Brother/Orwellian Source: Techdirt Print

White House's Totally Clueless Response To Copyright Infringement: Call In McGruff The Crime Dog

by Mike Masnick

The White House has shown itself to be totally and completely out of touch on intellectual property issues for a while, so it should come as little surprise that it went even further into silly town, with a big White House briefing, involving IP Czar Victoria Espinel, Attorney General Eric Holder, Acting Deputy Secretary Rebecca Blank and ICE boss John (due process? what due process?) Morton to announce (I'm not kidding) that McGruff the Crime Dog was taking a bite out of "intellectual property theft."

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