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How To Stop Piracy: Raid CD-R Moguls
An anonymous reader writes "In what appears to be a not-so-legal move, Mexico's equivalent of the RIAA used federal police to raid the installations of Grupo Mekong, responsible for 200 of the 400 million virgin CDs imported each year, accusing them to be "capos" of the Piracy bussiness in Mexico.
What is the rationale? Record companies buy only 20% of Mekong merchandise, so the other 80% must be going to pirates! Yeah, Never mind computer users ,independent labels or other legal uses.
You can see the article here but what amazes me is the behaviour! What will the next step be? Raid the truck companies who deliver the CDs? "
A large percentage of their inventory is used for satellite piracy! Com'mon RIAA, can't you help out the poor satellite companies!
If you could be told what you can see or read, then it follows that you could be told what to say or think - BoC
I'd like to see 'em raid the trucks The Fast and the Furious-style. Imagine Hilary Rosen driving one of those Civics and cursing in Spanish at the truck driver. Imagine Jack Valenti hanging from the side of the truck getting his arm cut off while his lobbyist pals in some more black Civics try to save him.
Or...
"I'd like to live, just long enough, to see them put your head on a pike as a reminder to the next ten generations that some boy band music comes at too high a price. I'd like to look up into your lifeless eyes, and wave, like this..."
i am a soviet space shuttle
for those slashdotters who actually read the articles
;-)
So YOU'RE the one!
What, you expect special treatment?
They say to not know that they make other industries with the virgin discs that sell to them
Notice the dateline is "City of Mexico." I imagine President Bush lives in the "House of White."
How long before we have an international incident because someone relied on these freebie translators? Imagine the U.S. using google to save time going through all those docs from Saddam Hussein ("My God! He's stockpiled 36,000 sticks of weaponized rancid butter!").
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I searched for "Mekong Group" (kind of a disturbing name to Americans in light of Vietnam fighting there: "The Mekong group comprises Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, Myanmar and China's Yunnan province, all of which border the Mekong River.") No luck.
However, from reading the article in Spanish (and I don't speak Spanish) I get the impression that the actual allegation is that the Group knowingly sold millions of discs "off the books" and can't account for them in their invoicing. If true, the action doesn't sound so unreasonable, as it suggests they knew they were doing something fishy. "Suggests" -- who knows? But this doesn't sound like a suspicionless search, and not at all Orwellian.
It's a bit like talking to Yoda isn't it? Lucky for me I lived in Miami for a while so I'm used to detangling this sort of thing. To bad I couldn't manage to pick up any of the non-English langs while I was at it.
At what price learning? At what cost wisdom? The price is a man's peace of mind, and the cost is his life.
Is that like S/PDIF?
Sorry, that was a really lame joke.
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
I mean, come on, do you realize that fully 20% of the oxygen that trees produce goes to criminals, bums, drug dealers, and pirates? Coincidence? I think not! The trees must be jailed!
-b
If I wanted a sig I would have filled in that stupid box.
What a GREAT IDEA for law enforcement!! See, now they don't have to investigate murders any more, just go and arrest the manufacturers of the bullets! Now every murder can be solved in seconds! Piracy? Arrest the people who run the electric company! After all, they provide the power that runs the computers those pirates use! Or, even better, go and arrest the managers of the FOOD STORES. After all, if they didn't sell food to pirates and criminals, they'd starve to death! OH..and arresting the food managers will have an unexpected bonus...we'll starve terrorists to death at the same time! Does this sound ridiculous? Seems to me that it's exactly what's going on! See, many things can be used for both legal and illegal purposes. Banning them JUST BECAUSE the potential of illegal use exists is purley asanine, yet it's already happening now.....
Excuse me sir, but this is Slashdot. I'm going to need you to take your rational viewpoint somewhere else.
How are you gentlemen? Are you Captain, Mechanic, or Cats? This situation is not for great justice. You know what you doing, move zig!
And AOL probably presses more discs than every record label in the world combined..
I suddenly find myself ambivalent about this whole affair.
every living relative, and my dog, in that fight.
Show some sensitivity.
KFG
Next lets raid Bic because they made the lighter that arsonists use, plus the pens that Check Fraud people use. Oh, and winchester and ginzu because they make the bullets and knives murderers use. Oh, and don't forget sharpie, because graffiti "artists" use sharpies all the time.
Damn, where'd the economy go?
Oh, yes. One of these days we're going to cross the Rio Grande and kick your capitalist butts.
We have elite teams of car thiefs that can take the threads and wheels off of a tank in less time than it takes to start the engine, and leave it standing on four cinder blocks. Even if the tank happens to be moving.
We have crack groups of squatters that can invade and occupy any size territory in less time than it takes you to scream "cucaracha".
Our drug dealers have more firepower than the 3rd Marine Division. And they dress better, too.
The only problem right now are our nuclear weapons, since they require a match to activate. But we're working on more advanced technology - Zippo lighters.
We're going to take back California, Arizona, Texas and New Mexico. And then we'll march up to Chicago to link up with our 2 million-strong sleeper cell there.
Be afraid, be very afraid.
We have elite teams of car thiefs that can take the threads and wheels off of a tank in less time than it takes to start the engine, and leave it standing on four cinder blocks. Even if the tank happens to be moving.
Heh. I've always wanted to see the "missing scenes" from Independence Day where a big mothership hovers over Mexico City, and goes down under millions of beggars, window-cleaners, juggler kids and fire-eaters. And gets robbed of everything that looks shiny or valuable enough, to be sold later in Tepito.
That is, if said mothership actually finds Mexico City under all that smog...
Tongue-tied and twisted, just an earth-bound misfit, I
Learning to fly, Pink Floyd.