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Thu, Jul 14th 2005 11:06am — Carlo Longino
The RIAA says commercial piracy is increasingly being dominated by organized crime syndicates that are establishing low-margin, high-volume businesses. So the RIAA has responded by stepping up the efforts of its "investigators" -- which sounds like a nice way to describe their private police force -- to seize raw materials like blank CDs and CD burners, joining their brothers in arms at the MPAA's efforts, which have resulted in the raid of at least one legitimate business. Forget permission to innovate, it wouldn't be surprising to see the RIAA try to ban blank CDs, or at least put a prohibitive tax on them. Interesting, though, to see the RIAA call out organized crime now, after appropriating its traditional business model of fear and intimidation, instead of just labeling the vast majority of consumers as thieves and criminals.
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  1. identicon
    dorpus, 14 Jul 2005 @ 11:14am

    ThugLuv

    You mean Silicon Valley isn't a nest of organized crime syndicates, known as "startups"?

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  2. identicon
    Sofa King Stoned, 14 Jul 2005 @ 12:02pm

    dorpus haiku

    Browsing on Techdirt.
    Story has only one comment?
    Guaranteed dorpus.

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  3. identicon
    dorpus, 14 Jul 2005 @ 12:15pm

    Re: dorpus haiku

    How many people read techdirt anyhow? A half dozen?

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  4. identicon
    alternatives, 14 Jul 2005 @ 12:29pm

    Re: dorpus haiku

    How many people read techdirt anyhow? A half dozen?

    Why do you care? Or were you posting the number 6 to show the readers yet another time of your uninformed rantings?

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  5. identicon
    thecaptain, 14 Jul 2005 @ 12:52pm

    Re: ThugLuv

    wow...you are slipping! That wasn't even close to making sense even in a trolling way.

    turn in your troll license! You don't qualify anymore.

    [ link to this | view in thread ]

  6. identicon
    Dorpus's good buddy, 14 Jul 2005 @ 10:02pm

    Re: dorpus haiku

    Leave Dorkus alone. He has mental issues...or is that mental tissue?

    Anyway, Dorkus rocks

    [ link to this | view in thread ]

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    Donald Jessop, 15 Jul 2005 @ 1:11pm

    Regarding the "prohibitive tax"

    For a country that has this extra levy attached to both blank CDs and blank DVDs, we can still pick them up dirt cheap: http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/proddetail.asp?sku_id=0665000FS10061780&catid=12500&logon=&langid=E N . For $29.99 you can buy 100 CDs of which $21.00 is this RIAA levy. I don't think this is what the RIAA expected to happen.

    Almost like everything they do, isn't it?

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