18.06.2014 - 05:07 [ Techdirt ]

City Of London Police Claim That ‚The Tor‘ Is 90% Of The Internet, And Is A Risk To Society

We‘ve written a bunch about the City of London Police* and their extrajudicial campaign against „piracy“ by trying to scare web hosting and domain registrar firms into taking down websites based on nothing more than the City of London Police‘s say so. However, Adrian Leppard, the guy in charge of the City of London Police‘s Intellectual Property Crime Unit (funded both by taxpayers and legacy entertainment companies) spoke at an IP Enforcement Summit in London and his comments, relayed by Torrentfreak, should raise questions about whether or not this is the right person to have anything to do with stopping „crime“ on the internet: