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RIAA Takes the Fight to the Streets
Lapzilla writes "In an article from LA Weekly, it would appear the RIAA has taken their fight to the streets. Wearing jackets with "RIAA" emblazoned upon them, they have taken to busting street vendors in an FBI fashion for selling bootleg CDs and DVDs."
1. Make RIAA jacket and take street vendors' products.
2. ?
3. Profit!!!
It's like saving taxdollars. They do the police's work and the police can worry about real crime, then.
Good quote, too many chars. Seriously, the slashdot 120 char limit sucks!
Let's say, theoretically, someone wanted to purchase these jackets. Where would one buy them?
I, er, my friend wants one.
Man, that is hilarious. Do they even cart people away in caged vans?
I'd say the folks wearing RIAA jackets might want to watch their backs...
Citizen: Um, listening to a record I checked out from the library?
RIAA Cop: "Checked out"? Don't you mean "Used to commit a crime!?"
Citizen: Um, no. I don't think-
RIAA Cop: That's the problem - you don't think! Come with me - we're going to Walmart so you can BUY that record. "Checked out" - I've never heard such a pathetic excuse.
the major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the societies in which they occur - A.N. White
I don't know -- the RIAA is pretty low, but I don't think even they would want people to confuse them with the LAPD.
Second best quote: "They tried to scare me," Borrayo said. "They told me, 'You're a pirate!' I said, 'C'mon, guys, pirates are all at sea. I just work in a parking lot.'"
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
Mark Twain
Next step: Street Vendors selling RIAA-emblazoned jackets. Oh the hilarity!
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
...as the vendors might fight back! Those guys can be *mean** if you piss them off...
libertarianswag.com
I wear a 'Pirate' Jacket when I bust into Borders and grab CDs. Fair's fair.
"I only speak the truth"
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This would be an awesome game. You are an RIAA agent with the jacket, sunglasses and cool weaponry. Your goal is to destroy all things music related. Dude with an MP3 player walking down street listening to music, Blam, cha ching. etc.
RIAA: (Hand reaching into sky, as heart is cluched) AHHhhhhggghh!
Random Chick: Ohh Vendor! Let's do it!
This one act play is brought to you by the stale ideas of the MPAA. Thank you.
Lets go around in greasy t-shirts and ten years worth on unkeept beard growth (the official uniform of the FSF) kicking down the doors of people who violate the GPL and shout "Freeze scumbags, this is the FSF! Hand over your source code into the public domain and no one gets hurt!".
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
End of story.
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For its part, the RIAA maintains that the up-close-and-personal techniques are nothing new. RIAA spokesman Jonathan Lamy says its investigators do not represent themselves as police, and that the incident reports vendors are asked to sign, in which they agree to hand over their discs, explicitly state that the forfeiture is voluntary.
So wait... I can go upto someone with my gang of cronies, wearing gang colours that look like uniforms, claim I'm a wallet inspector, take peoples stuff, and as long as they sign something saying it's voluntary, it's all legal?
I think I found myself a new job
The fun part is that they really shouldn't be suprised when one or more of them get's seriously hurt or killed.
whoever though this was a good idea is a complete idiot.
street vendor get's attacked by a RIAA jacket wearing group, street vendor pulls out pistol and cap's a couple of them. Hey, why don't they start their sweep in south central LA.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
wouldn't that leave the RIAA open up to liability for potential violation of civil rights and false arrest if the "cops" actually put anyone in handcuffs as they are threatening to?
Too bad I don't live in LA...
Anyone who does, want to make a few bucks, courtesy of the RIAA?
Find one of these "teams". Follow them around, stepping in to explain to anyone they attempt to bust that they lack any legal power and the vendor can safely ignore them.
Have a friend, staying out of sight, follow you around during all this with a video camera.
When the RIAA rent-a-fake-cops get pissed and beat the crap out of you (since they hire real ex-cops, that shouldn't take too long), congrats, consider yourself set for life from your civil suit.
Best of all, since these guys don't actually count as cops, they can't charge you with interfering in a police investigation (which would almost certainly happen if you tried this on real cops).
Lets hope SCO doesn't get any ideas from this...
My favorite part is that he said that they are of a Hispanic nature . They could be African, European, Asian, Antarctican, but damn it. There's something terribly hispanic about these damn pirates.
postmodernsideshow.com
...only mine will say F.U.R.I.A.A
Can I be the friend who stays out of sight with the camera while you get your ass kicked?
"The process of confiscating bootleg CDs from street vendors is exactly what the RIAA should be doing," said Jason Schultz, a staff attorney for the San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).
Jason, excuse me but are you fucking nuts??? Civilians should confiscate property because they think it's illegal, not call the cops and report it stolen, but just take it? And you are an actual attorney?????
I believe that's my big-screen TV you've got there in your living room, Jason. I'll be right over to pick it up.