Various laws have allowed local governments to declare specific property detrimental to public health & safety when that property becomes overrun with drugs, gangs, prostitution or gambling. However, the entertainment industry's hometown gov't in Los Angeles has now [url=http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/05/los-angeles-say.html target=_new]expanded the list to include music and movie piracy as well[/url]. Whatever you think of unauthorized copying of content, it's difficult to see how you can, with a straight face, claim that it is the equivalent of property being overrun with drugs, gangs prostitution or gambling.

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