RIAA Now Targets Pirates' Parents

cecil36 writes "In a follow-up to the subpoena silliness by the RIAA, the Associated Press is now reporting that the RIAA is now issuing subpoenas to family members of suspected online music swappers."

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Stop piracy or DIE!!!

[rice_burners_suck]

I have an idea. How about, arrest everyone who lives in the same neighborhood as these world-threatening pirates. Heck, if your neighbor from two streets over is caught performing this crime against humanity, they should come and bulldoze all the houses in the neighborhood, starting with yours, even if you don't have any kind of electronics or devices in your home capable of reproducing sounds. And they should take you and your family away to slave labor camps in Siberia. Heck, they should do the same to people who have had the same IP address, if using DHCP, and to people who have the same first or last name, or a name that rhymes. As a matter of fact, this process will become the most efficient when they discover that people who don't have blonde hair and blue eyes are pirates, and line up everyone who violates this strictly defined code at the gates of death camps, where they put 10,000 people in a room, push a button, and a plasma gun goes off like in Doom-II and just pulverizes everyone. That would be the most efficient way to handle piracy. In my estimation, they would only have to kill 5,999,999,999 people, so this shouldn't be too difficult to implement. The poor, starving, dying-of-malaria-because-they-can't-afford-to-live -in-civilization artists would certainly be happy about it.

An open letter to the RIAA

[kien]

Dear antitrust-defying, price-fixing, clueless morons,

We, your customers (aka the people you depend upon for revenue), have spoken. Deal with it or pull the ripcord on your golden parachutes. We're willing to pay for songs, but only for songs that we like. Your exploitation of copyright law is over because we'll route around it until you get a clue. Welcome to the future!

--K.