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Leaked RIAA Training Video Links Piracy to Drugs and Terrorism
Well it's official: the RIAA has lost its collective mind. Some intrepid muckrakers have gotten their hands on a training video from the record industry group and the contents are both hilarious and terrifying.
According to the video, music piracy affects quality of life in communities and is a 'gateway crime.' Music piracy can lead investigators to drug cartels, illegal guns, and of course, terrorist organizations (what doesn't these days). And apparently music pirates have backgrounds of more serious offenses, such as robbery and murder. The RIAA and its ilk are often guilty of overstating their case, but this training video goes much further than any previous insinuations about music piracy's connections to larger crimes.
So now you know that the RIAA thinks you're a drug dealing, homicidal, terrorist. Just stay put and wait for the SWAT team.
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Comments
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Subscribe to commentsJasonFeb 22nd 2008 10:01AM
I was expecting the RIAA to jump on the two presidential candidates that were both illegally using copyrighted music to boost their campaigns. Alas, I am disappointed to see that presidential candidates who are openly guilty of infringement are left unpunished and free to become President. ... All this while Joe Average is having his ass handed to him by the RIAA for trading a few MP3s with friends. Where is justice now?
saint7923Feb 22nd 2008 12:54PM
Yup...RIAA has got something wrong as usual...Hold on...I will have to prove them right...Let me go and score a blunt from Crack head Bob. And Smoke it! Or Just Maybe it is the RIAA who is on Cr@# and needs to get their head out of their collective ASS and Get Laid or something. Can't play the music CD’s which I purchase in a brick and mortar store on My IPOD...Who is SMOKING CR@# Now...PISS OFF DUMB ASSES! It is Time that everyone rise-up
and sue the RIAA for Harassment and Criminal Miss Conduct!
ascatalFeb 22nd 2008 6:31PM
OMFG they must be nuts i suppose theremight be a tiny percntage that that just might be true about but in gernal that is a load of crap they need to stop talking sh@t and start spending theremoney on new tech to stop people from "steal " music and movies
Bill LFeb 23rd 2008 1:42PM
And the day after it's posted here the video is pulled. Guess the RIAA told YouTube it was illegally posted by a a drug dealing, homicidal, terrorist !
Marcia Lynn NeilFeb 27th 2008 2:46PM
Music piracy IS a larger crime when the RIAA factories are doing the pirating; and such factory use also causes crimes because affecting the morale and mental health of populations.
Marcia Lynn NeilMar 15th 2008 1:18PM
There is a 'Devil's Triangle' of free music-listening, that consists of purposeful gasoline burning to prevent volcanoes, the open road (new and expanded roadways), and new original music presentations using free radio transmissions. The probability that radio-presented new music (heard and/or anticipated), is illegally broadcast using "freedom of the press" rather than legal copyright procedure, is possibly 100%. The Devil's Triangle mentality wastes oil-industry resources to hear the free music, and ruins the environment and public health.