Justice for the highest bidder
Unfortunately, so long as politicians hold the purse strings, groups that have the money to lobby/give to those politicians will be able to direct the expenditures of law enforcement. The music industry has money to throw around, and will do so as long as the politicians will take it. The politicians will pressure the police to spend time and effort on their issues, and the hard criminals will continue to exist as they do now. Too bad most families of victims don't have the financial ability to get the attention of the politicians.
Perhaps it's time to remove the criminal penalties and make all intellectual property crimes a civil matter and let the police go back to real crimes. Then, the lawyers get to pay for the investigations and the prosecutions.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
