Recently released documents from both the US and Canada suggests that national law enforcement officials have real concerns about becoming the “copyright police” for private rightsholders.
In 2008, Stewart Baker, the Assistant Secretary for Policy at the Department of Homeland Security, sent a letter (PDF) to the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR). USTR was then negotiating the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), which Baker worried would "harm national security" by forcing his department to spend more resources defending copyrights and trademarks—resources which might come at the expense of investigations into terrorism or counterfeit drugs.
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