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Technology and the Internet

FBI Warning to Be More Widely Used

By Jon Healey
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Shoppers who buy music CDs, videogames and software may soon be greeted by a message familiar to anyone who buys or rents movies: a warning from the FBI not to make illegal copies.

Representatives of the FBI announced that they were making a new version of their anti-piracy warning available to the entertainment and software industries, along with a letter cautioning the public about copyright infringement, obscenity and hacking on peer-to-peer networks.

How those industries use the two-sentence warning and two-page letter has yet to be decided, but representatives of the music, game and software industries all indicated that they planned to incorporate the warning into their packaged and downloadable products.

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-- Jon Healey

Technology and the Internet
Jon Healey

Jon Healey writes and edits stories for the Los Angeles Times’ Fast Break Desk, the team that dives into the biggest news of the moment. In his previous stints, he wrote and edited for the Utility Journalism team and The Times editorial board. He covered technology news for The Times from 2000 to mid-2005.

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