Watch out warez traders, St. Louis cops could be lurking in your IRC channel! In a speech before an assembled crowd of law enforcement officials in Maryland this week, Attorney General Eric Holder announced the winners of a new federal grant that will send hundreds of thousands of dollars to 13 agencies in an effort to step up enforcement of copyright and trademark laws. The Intellectual Property
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