{"id":549571,"date":"2006-07-19T14:42:14","date_gmt":"2006-07-19T14:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/549571-boy-scouts-hunt-pirates.html"},"modified":"2006-07-19T14:42:14","modified_gmt":"2006-07-19T14:42:14","slug":"boy-scouts-hunt-pirates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/549571-boy-scouts-hunt-pirates.html","title":{"rendered":"Boy scouts hunt pirates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">The young do-gooders will be asked to turn online policeman and trawl Internet chat sites for anyone uploading copyrighted material onto the web and then turn them in to authorities. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The plan is part of the so-called &quot;Youth Ambassadors Against Internet Piracy Scheme&quot; launched by the Cutsoms and Excise\u00a0 department to crack down on a scourge that record and movie industries say is losing them billions of dollars. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The government said in a statement it hoped to enlist 200,000 youngsters. They will be primarily aimed at battling file shares\u00a0 that use the popular BitTorrent network. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Lawmakers have criticised the scheme, saying they were uneasy about minors becoming involved in law enforcement. But Customs and Excise department superintendent Tam Yiu-keung stressed there was nothing to worry about. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">&quot;We are not trying to manipulate youths and get them into the spy profession &#8211; what we are just trying to do is arouse a civic\u00a0 conscience to report crimes to the authorities,&quot; Tam was quoted as telling the New York Times. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Music industry watchdogs blame online and CD piracy for revenue losses of more than one billion Hong Kong (129 million US) dollars annually and a 20 percent drop in the number of people working in the music business. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">It&#8217;s estimated that the United States loses 250 billion dollars annually to piracy. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><i><font size=\"2\">INet-Bridge<\/font><\/i><\/p>\n<p><em \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong has unveiled its latest weapon in the fight against illegal online file sharers &#8211; the humble Boy Scout and his counterpart, the Girl Guide. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549571"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}