Top 10 Internet Crimes of '06

An anonymous reader notes that "The Bad Guys blog at USNews.com offers a look at the top ten Internet crimes of 2006. The federal study cited draws on over 200,000 complaints to US law enforcement and regulatory agencies. Top crime: auction fraud, followed by other online rip-offs. "

Surprised that the article didn't mention piracy

[tepples]

3. RIAA lawsuits
6. DMCA. The law itself is a crime
7. Bono Act (AKA "Steamboat Willie Preservation Act"). Again, the law itself is the crime.

I was looking for those in the article before I read your comment, but I didn't see one instance of any form of "pirate" or "infringe" in the article. So is there a reason that copyright infringement, such as through peer-to-peer file sharing networks, is not one of the top 10 Internet crimes of 2006?

There is a damned good reason they got rid of the <blink> tag, you know!

O RLY? Gecko supports the <blink> element and even has a corresponding CSS attribute for it: text-decoration: blink [domedia.org]. Luckily, blinking text in recent Gecko is easier to read than blinking text in older browsers because recent Gecko blinks with a duty cycle [wikipedia.org] of 75 percent on, unlike older browsers that used 50 percent on.

a serious crime but not violent

[davidwr]

Violent act = act that violates a person's body.
Violent crime = criminal violent act.

Unless you are a teenager shooting yourself, a live child-porn vids is a violent act.
Unless you are a teenager shooting yourself, creating child porn is a violent act.

Distributing or watching child porn is not a violent act. By the time someone watches it, the violence is over. The violence may even date from 30 years ago. It is evidence of a violent act. It is also a very serious crime in most of the world.

If the violent act took place just about any country in the world, it's a violent crime.

A kid being molested on the internet is WAY more important than being ripped off $200 via auction fraud.

Amen.

Re:Piracy is NOT on the list

[bcattwoo]

Whenever you see the RIAA whining about how Piracy/IP Theft/Copyright Theft etc. is a major crime, remember this list [usnews.com].
Piracy is not even in the top ten.

Because copyright infringement is a civil matter, not a criminal one.

Re:I notice

[StewedSquirrel]

Would you be surprised to know that almost 50% of those arrested on child porn charges in 2007 are actually minors themselves?

Most people don't know that. It doesn't tend the make the news since minors charged of a crime don't get press releases in most cases.

I ran into that in a DoJ study on the issue. It cites broad statistics but doesn't reveal much in the way of details, citing "protecting children" *chuckles*

Stew