Minister of the Interior Jüri Pihl´s speech on “Fight against Cybercrime” (July 24th 2008, Brussels )

Meeting of the European Union Ministers of Justice and Home Affairs

Fight Against Cybercrime

At first, I would like to thank the Presidency for this initiative. The use of Internet for illegal purposes does not attest state borders like many other types of crime, and the revenue obtained by it is comparable to drug trafficking. Cyber criminals, servers or webpages with illegal content may belong under one cyberspace jurisdiction at the same time and in the next moment already move to the next one and so on. This makes the fight against cybercrime especially complicated. Thus, it is very important that this type of crime and its rapid distribution would be given full attention of the Council.

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