The Copyright Cops Really Are Busting Down Doors
from the reality-copying-satire dept
Last month when it was announced that the RIAA was hiring the former head of the ATF, I joked about how the copyright cops might soon be busting down your door. What I didn't realize was that it's no joke, and it's already happening. Found on Slashdot is the news that the RIAA has been hiring ex-law enforcement officials, outfitting them with police-style outfits, including black "raid" vests with yellow lettering stenciled on the back to spell RIAA, and sending them out to scare unauthorized vendors of CDs and confiscating what they find. While I have no sympathy for those selling such CDs, this does seem to go well over the line. The RIAA claims that it's very effective, and they don't mean for the vendors to actually think they're police - but the effect suggests otherwise. In that case, you could make the argument that they're falsely impersonating law enforcement officials and stealing the CDs they take. They do make the vendor sign an "incident report" indicating that confiscating the CDs is "voluntary" - but if you're scared to death you're about to be arrested, it doesn't seem very voluntary.
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RIAA is the new Gestapo
Will they be kidnapping P2P users, and only letting them go once they hand over all their MP3's, legitimate or not?
Seriously though...does the RIAA represent all the artists that the vendor had CD's for? What about those South American natives that are in every major city in the world playing their beautiful drum and flute music? They sell CD's. Will the RIAA nazi's bust them too for unauthorized CD sales?
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StormTroopers
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Golden Rule
If your bank refuses to reverse an erronious $5 charge you, have little recourse. If you take $5 from your bank's till, you'll be arrested by the FBI.
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Re: Golden Rule
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Greatest quote I've seen in a long time!!!
I wish the RIAA would listen to how stupid their choice of words are, but if they did, they would start thinking about other things, and they certainly don't want that to happen (thinking is over-rated in their book anyway; they want their customers to mindlessly buy what ever crap they put out and failure to do so is obviously against the law.) Piracy is not the stuff they show on the movie "Pirates of the Caribbean", it usually involves rape, murder, and forcible removal of property on the high seas, and is punishable by death. Equating copyright infringement to piracy may sound good to the dimwitted folks in the RIAA/MPAA/BSA, but it isn't the same thing!
However, I am glad they are cracking down on illegal vendors instead of customers who have chosen to obtain their product online (for which they didn't have a fair or reliable capability of doing themselves until recently.) I don't download mp3s online, and I have over 1000 CD's (most recently have been purchased through CD-Baby and other indie music companies though,) but I like the mp3 format as it is easy to place my entire collection onto a single harddrive and play them in randomized order to my heart's content. I worry with the RIAA's current gestapo tactics, that those who do anything with a CD other than buy it and keep it on a shelf will soon find themselves at the hands of the SS.
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they need a real cop...
*) Impersonating a police officer.
*) Not having the authority to perform police actions
*) Stealing property (no matter what, the so called confiscated CD's are not owned by the RIAA)
I think it's time the RIAA got a visit from a REAL cop...
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This is a vigilante action, but it has a few of my
Inevitably they will also persecute some innocents, and occasionally generate more violence than intended, maybe enough to injure innocent bystanders.
- The Precision Blogger
http://precision-blogging.blogspot.com
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This is F*CKED UP
I dont think its so funny any more....
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Misquotes
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Stupid ATF in Albuquerque
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Re: Stupid ATF in Albuquerque
Are you seriously telling me that you're going to talk that kind of shit, admit to it AND put your real fucking name up on the same post?
You're either:
A: Lying your ass off
OR
You're REALLY, REALLY fucking stupid.
*thinks*
I choose option C.
BOTH.
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Re: Stupid ATF in Albuquerque
But the worst part is that you have the audacity to brag about your total lack of integrity and seem to think that you've gotten away with it just because the statute of limitations has run out. Boy! are you out of touch with reality! You fail to realize that the fact that you did it will never go away. Even though you're proud of your actions, you WILL pay - Time will show you that your guilt remains even if you attempt to overlook it.
I hope Doc was able to overcome in the long run and put his life back together and I hope you haven't been so rudely inhumane to anyone else.
Losers, for sure!
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Derek Battershell
I have met this ass, and my first impression was: DISHONEST!
He open's auto-repair shops, does shoddy repair work, and sells used parts for new.
Derek Battershell has a rich daddy, that is very influential in Albuquerque.
The only way you can tell Derek Battershell is lying is:
HIS LIPS ARE MOVING.
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Battershell's ARE losers
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The Battershell's are mexican too. Christina the mother is from espanola!!HA Not to worry all of them are paying for thier past criminal history.!! NMCOURTS.COM just enter the last name. They won't be talking crap anymore!! What goes around comes around.
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Bring it
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Abq CL
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