RIAA Wants Taxpayer-Funded IP Police

Sydney Weidman writes "RIAA has given testimony before the House Appropriations Committee asking for more federal money for Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property investigation teams. You can find RIAA's side of the story here and a Cnet story is available as well. Apparently, RIAA is not satisfied with the current deployment of CHIP teams since they have been more involved in anti-hacking activities than in anti-piracy. My favourite Hilary Rosen quote: "Piracy is not a private offense, it hurts everyone by diminishing the incentive to invest in the creation of music." I guess Rosen won't be happy until each and every pirate is charged with crimes against humanity and convicted by the International Court of Justice"

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Can't believe this

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"If you can't protect what you own, you don't own anything," Valenti said in a statement. So here he's basically saying the MPAA doesn;t own anything.If he and Hil are whining to Congress to get more federal money ( I still can't fuckin believe that... our government FUNDING them. I can guarantee it would go into their pockets NOT toward fighting piracy ) and help in protecting their stuff. Which would mean to me that THEY CAN'T PROTECT THEIR OWN STUFF. So according to Jack's logic, neither the MPAA or the RIAA own ANYTHING.