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? "

Comments

Let's take on Atmel!

[shepd]

A large percentage of their inventory is used for satellite piracy! Com'mon RIAA, can't you help out the poor satellite companies!

I'd like to see ...

[Buran]

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..."

Re:Link is in Spanish

[MacAndrew]

for those slashdotters who actually read the articles

So YOU'RE the one!

What, you expect special treatment? ;-)

You call that translation?

[MacAndrew]

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.

Re:English via google

[flopsy mopsalon]

You thank often for informative very translation! Points of article veritably stated I address must:

According to calculations of the Protective Derechos Association Intelectuales Fonogra'ficos (APDIF), the legal industry purchase per year 20 million discs, as soon as the 10 percent of 200 million that the Soli's matter and sell annually. For that reason they are indicated like the main suppliers of piracy in Mexico.

Generalization infamous this argument specious is. Uses of numerous multiplicity disks can be made to have by consumer. To Piracy assume on simple stupidhead calcuations offhand make, demostrates syllogistically the logic that smells foul.

Between the supposed denounced irregularities, Ildefonso Soli's indicated that in the operative one of the 18 of December, between the 7 million assured discs were 2,8 million units that were seized for the second time, which already had been given back them by Property because the merchandise were legal.

Here weighings awesome of judegmental facts against poor law enforcement lean. Own actions police of past show virgin discs to of unassailable purity innocence uses comprised having been. Whole issue of suspicion frequently corruption singing quietly from under floorboards it cannot be dodged.

What about the trees?

[aiken_d]

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

Re:CD's not CDR's?

[stinky wizzleteats]

And AOL probably presses more discs than every record label in the world combined..

I suddenly find myself ambivalent about this whole affair.