The piracy/terrorism link has been used often before, an example: http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/03/21/1047749921225.h...

> March 21 2003

Ah, back the in the MPAA hay-day when they still thought they had a chance:

> Motion Picture Association of America head Jack Valenti - a leader of Hollywood's fight against piracy - continued the terrorism theme in his written submission to the hearing.

> "September 11 changed the way Americans look at the world. It also changed the way American law enforcement looks at Intellectual Property crimes," wrote Valenti - borrowing from an November 2002 article in the Customs Service newsletter US Customs Today.

Reminds me of this old comic: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/53/ed/12/53ed12786...

14 years later and it's still a good political tactic.

So could selling vegetables...

Pirated CD sales could be used to fund terrorism? That's a pretty tenuous link to "counter-terrorism efforts related to the 2020 Olympics."

To be fair, pirated DVDs and CDs have been used by organized crime; no reason to think terrorists wouldn't look for the same revenue stream.

Right, but is finding copyright infringers really the best way to look for terrorists that may be attempting to attack the 2020 Olympics? I mean "counter-terrorism efforts for the 2020 Olympics" is the stated goal of this legislation.

In their (copyright enforcement cartel) mind, it IS terrorism. Remember what Jack Valenti testified before Congress about the VCR[1]:

'I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone.'

[1] https://cryptome.org/hrcw-hear.htm

No, I don't think it is.

Who still buys CDs in this day and age? What devices on the market even have a CD player to access content? Seems a bit overreaching.

CDs are still big in Japan.

https://qz.com/711490/why-japan-has-more-music-stores-than-t...

I mean, I'm aware of it, but can't understand why. It used to be they were at the forefront of new technology, but as with their isdn deployments, sometimes being too far ahead leads to dead ends like this one. It's quite an interesting phenomenon.

Having a tangible, beautiful object, often with additional art and conveniently readable and viewable extra information, a dead end?!

From where I sit, almost all the rest of the world are who went wrong, with impoverished, locked-in streaming services from businesses who take everything away the day you stop paying them, and dull audiofile-only downloads.

But we seem to agree that Abe declaring unauthorized CD copying preparation to terrorism is ludicrous...

Not really CDs but items (ex: handshake passes, photos, etc) that are attached to CDs.