Swedish Police Shoe Database May Tread On Copyright 156
An anonymous reader writes "The Swedish police, who have been instrumental in various raids against file-sharing sites, may have a bit of a piracy problem on their own hands. It seems they wanted to put together a database of shoe print information for matching crime scene shoe prints to particular shoe types. To do so, they used images found online, and some Swedish copyright experts have noted that this appears to violate Swedish copyright law. The police claim there's an exception for police investigations, but people (and some shoe companies) are pointing out that creating a database isn't about an investigation."
Sure it is! (Score:5, Funny)
The investigations are just hypothetical and in the future!
Also, the NSA needs to spy on my phone conversations in case I ever become a terrorist. Which, I have to admit, is pretty good foresight on their part.
Coming up next on... (Score:1, Funny)
Unshod Mysteries.
Witty title (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Slender, not broad (Score:5, Funny)
Glad to know... (Score:1, Funny)
Glad to know that the the US isn't the only country throwing money away on invasive, quasi-legal and ridiculously redundant databases in the name of SOLVING CRIME.
Re:Sure it is! (Score:2, Funny)
I can't see why they don't just build a Visual Basic GUI that downloads the images as they are needed.
Re:Witty title (Score:5, Funny)
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Cousin to the Swedish Chef (Score:3, Funny)
Hur, de hur de hur, dee dee boom -- Tort! Tort! Tort!
If only.
Cheers,
Re:Sure it is! (Score:3, Funny)
Jurisprudence does ... in general ... recognize a future hypothetical case ... as ... lawsuits against ... copyright violators ... [A]n unholy cross between corruption, politics, and insanity ... permit... police to use ... powers for any ... purpose.
The correct answer is ... just ... a ... person ... armed... can solve the problem.