
Are Anti-Piracy Laws Really Needed?
Authorities Used Existing Laws to Shutter File-Sharing Site
January 20, 2012
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About this episode
Does the U.S. government's shuttering of the file-sharing website Megaupload.com show that new laws are not needed to battle intellectual property piracy? Brookings's Allan Friedman believes it does.