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data because the servers are located in
a difficult country or you can't break
encryption, then we have to look at
other solutions."
One solution may be to reverse the
trend of centralized knowledge. "They
create a child pornography unit, a fraud
unit and you have very specific skillsets
in those units," says Kotak. "What we
have to do is look at decentralization,
which would ensure the knowledge, skills
and abilities, with respect to social/cyber-/
digital crimes, are built into every element
and training module in policing."
Lorne Lipkus, founding partner at
Kestenberg Siegal Lipkus in Toronto,
spends most of his practice working
on brand protection and counterfeit
cases. In his experience, even though
selling counterfeit goods online has sky-
rocketed, the criminals behind the cases
he comes across are rarely convicted. "If
you are able to find them — and that's a
big 'if ' — then you have to go to where
they are physically located. In Canada,
we have found the criminals, and the
local police have dealt with them, but it
is a spit in the ocean." Asked if amend-
ing our laws would help, Lipkus says:
"There is no one step. There is no one
law. There is no one agency and there is
no one way. This is a global issue that
requires a lot of different entities to get
together."
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