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RIAA, MPAA Instigate U.S. Naval Academy Raid
LaikaVirgin writes "After receiving a letter from 'four entertainment-based lobbying associations', the U.S. Naval Academy has seized nearly 100 midshipmen's computers that allegedly had pirated media. It's good to see that the armed forces know who's really in charge."
Maybe they we're bugged 'cos of all the illegal copies of "In The Navy" by YMCA ;)
Are you local? There's nothing for you here!
The Navy would be raiding RIAA computer ;).
Go ahead, I'll take the karma hit!
"Entropy is the bad-guy, and he is everywhere"
I always knew the Navy was full of pirates.
word.
How long before we start to see corporate sponsership of our armed forces? Ideas like "Apple Navy", "AOL/Time-Warner Air Force" and "Dell Army" are becoming less outlandish.
On the plus side, the marketing would be interesting.
"...and the F-16 was all like beepbeepbeep..."
Some of the recording industry's biggest stars, such as Madonna, Mick Jagger and Eminem, have joined coalitions to combat the wholesale theft of music. The industry claims this threatens the livelihood of everyone from artists, songwriters and manufacturers to sound engineers and record-store owners and clerks.
:-).
Finally the industry realizes that these thuggish tactics are going to hurt their sales
ha ha what a loser - what college is he going to? The University of Amish Mutherfuckers?
Tell your friend to hit them where it really counts - have him get all drunk and protest on the quad! That'll show 'em!
In the Pentagon, it became so common for the chart jockies to put together such enormous PPTs that brought down the internal networks at the Pentagon just shipping the PPTs around to the audience that the Brass had to ban/restrict its use. It was common for even the most ordinary presentation to contain movies, sounds sub programs, shooting stars.... Presentations typically ran to the multi-hundred megabytes.
I guess what I'm getting at is the DoD has a culture of extreme presentation and content bloat for no good reason. Seems to me that the upper management tacitly approves of massive media collection and sharing.
Remember, only the RIAA is allowed to steal from needy artists. May God help anyone else who tries.
I do security
The real implication is that only 150 students are into porn mainstream enough to be on the "known porn sites".
Why is President Bush wasting all that money trying to track down and eliminate Bin Laden when he could simply report him to the RIAA for breaching their copyright.
Clearly the RIAA has far more power at its disposal than the US military and although Bin Laden has managed to evade the united power of the armed services, he wouldn't stand a chance against the recording industry.
Better still -- tell Hillary that Saddam has a huge collection of MP3s and boy-band CDs copied onto CDR. No need for a UN mandate, she'd be in and clean him out in no time!
But what I *really* want to see is the RIAA conduct a raid on the IRS computers to look for copyright breaches.
Now that would be great -- a real clash of the titans eh?
The sad thing is that it's the every-day Joe who's paying for all these power-plays -- either through our CD purchases or our taxes.
Couldn't they find something better to do with all this money?
"`Theft' is a harsh word, but that it is, pure and simple," the letter stated. "... It is no different from walking into the campus bookstore and in a clandestine manner walking out with a textbook without paying for it."
Because I was thinking it was more like walking into the campus bookstore, reading a book, and leaving, maybe ocassionally coming back to re-read parts of it. I didn't realize that everytime I listen to a song on the Internet, that song disappears from existence.. no wonder music today sucks so bad.. I've been removing all the good stuff... damnit, how could I have been so stupid!