Internet piracy costs the entertainment industry about $24.1 billion a year. It is a serious crime that violates the copyright laws and negatively impacts the copyright holders and the entertainment industries as a whole.

Last year, the Department of Commerce made many efforts to fight the piracy of intellectual property. Teams of intellectual property experts were sent to Brazil, China, India, Russia, Thailand and the Middle East, to work together with U.S. businesses dealing with rampant piracy. The Department also created an academy through the Patent and Trademark Office to train foreign judicial and law enforcement officials on intellectual property rules. In addition, President Bush created a new senior-level position in the U.S. Department of Commerce to combat intellectual property violations around the world. All of these efforts were helpful, but the issue of Internet piracy is still largely at hand.

Your mission is to foster, serve, and promote the Nation’s economic development and technological advancement. This mission needs to encompass the destructive issue of Internet piracy, the violation of the copyright laws, and the technological solution that will put an end to copyright theft on the Internet once and for all.

Internet piracy is a technical issue, thus it requires a technical solution. SafeMedia has brought forth such technologie, Clouseau™, designed specifically to eradicate illegal P2P file-sharing on the Internet and become the only solutions to the massive theft of copyrighted material.

Clouseau™ provide the Department of Commerce immediate, well-tested, proven, and effective ways to protect copyright laws, interstate commerce laws, and prevent Internet piracy through illegal P2P networks.

Clouseau™’s illegal P2P file-sharing eradicating capabilities immediately prove themselves. Users will no longer have the option to use their Internet for illegal file-sharing; the access to any illegal P2P network is eliminated as soon as Clouseau™ is implemented within a subnet.

You can fulfill your mission by supporting the implementation of the the technical solution to copyright theft on the Internet, Clouseau™. You can do this by working with other government agencies in helping to strengthen our nation’s anti-piracy laws and aiding in the creation of national policy that will implement Clouseau™ as adoptable policies for organizations, educational institutions, and home users to deter and eliminate illicit copyright infringement occurring on, and encourages educational uses of, their computer systems and networks. This approach will eliminate a large percentage of the current theft of copyrighted materials on the Internet that is occurring in our nation.

You can also increase its efforts in eliminating Internet piracy by heavily monitoring interstate commerce, increasing the establishment of organizations and groups to aid in the capture of Internet pirates, and severely strengthening the penalties for violation of the State laws regarding Internet piracy and copyright laws.

Continue to work hand in hand with the Department of Justice in suggesting new techniques and measures to fight Internet piracy and strengthen the penalties for violation of the copyright laws. Your support of increasing your measures in capturing pirates, monitoring Interstate pirate activities, and strengthening the penalties for violation of the copyright and State laws, will help put an end to stop Internet piracy.

We call on you to uphold the law and prohibit Internet users from making the criminal choice to continue illegally downloading and distributing copyrighted materials. We further call on you to strengthen the penalties for Internet piracy and the violation of the copyright laws, since now, for the first time, there are well tested and proven solutions.

By supporting the implementation of Clouseau™ you help to eliminate a large percentage of the current theft of copyrighted material on the Internet that is occurring in our nation and continue to remain consistent with your mission of advancing commerce.