Earlier this year, for example, they proposed two major pieces of legislation premised on the notion that illegal downloading is stealing: the Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act (PIPA) and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).
The targets of foreign intelligence are myriad, ranging from jihadi groups to economic or technological theft.
Spying, information theft, economic espionage and assassination also remain an important part of the dysfunctional US-Russia relationship.
Among Louis's responsibilities were deciding what kinds of bloodlines qualified as Jewish and overseeing the "economic Aryanisation," or theft, of Jewish assets.
But the operation, which resulted in the indictments of 94 people, was nonetheless a "crossover between economic crime, identity theft and cybercrime," the Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., said on Wednesday.
The parallel bill in the Senate, the Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act of 2011, had 42 Republican and Democratic Senate sponsors, including Patrick Leahy, Democrat of Vermont and chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
"More than 10 million people got involved protesting the Pipa [the Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act] and Sopa [the Stop Online Piracy Act] legislation," he said.
President Obama and Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. seemed to score big in 2011 using the milker tactic in connection with two bills: the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act.
Within hours of the unprecedented assault, Sopa, the Stop Online Piracy Act, was dead and a sister act, Pipa, a neat acronym for the tortuously titled Protect IP Act (Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act) was sunk too.
He was arrested at the airport and charged with economic espionage and theft of trade secrets.
