MPAA Applauds Congress For Anti-Piracy Funding

The Motion Picture Association of America gave a shout-out Monday to the Congress for the $30 million it is setting aside to battle online and offline content pirates. Stemming its passage last year of the PRO-IP Act, which boosts enforcement of intellectual property crimes including online piracy of movies and TV shows, $30 million has been set aside in the Omnibus Appropriations Bill conference report, according to MPAA. That breaks down to $20 million for high-tech and Internet crime prevention grants to states and localities; $8 million for FBI agents; and $2 million for prosecutors.