Private Entrapment?
Entrapment has typically been the result of lazy police work by officers who find it easier to manufacture offenses than to solve crimes that have already occurred. Now some complain that private entities are playing the entrapment game. Specifically:
A company that sells antipiracy services to major studios and recording firms is being accused by some bloggers of trying to entrap individuals by getting them to download illegal copies of major Hollywood movies.
It's a brilliant (albeit sleazy) idea, if true: encourage the pirating of movies to boost sales of anti-piracy software. Media Defender denies that the story is true, but doesn't have a convincing explanation for the piracy-encouraging website's existence, or for its sudden disappearance after its connection to Media Defender was exposed.
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