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MPAA Under Investigation for Illegal NYPD Payoffs
An anonymous reader writes "The New York Post is reporting that two NYPD officers are being investigated for taking illegal payoffs from the MPAA for busting sellers of pirated DVDs. According to the article, MPAA investigators would tell the cops where pirated movies were being sold, which is perfectly legal, but, after the bust, they'd give them several hundred dollars in gratuities, which is illegal. Naturally, the MPAA denies all of this."
I'm all for free movies, but when people sell them, they should get arrested. :)
Save the bandwidth for me.
The MPAA giving to someones campaign funds is perfectly legal, lets say a Police Chief, who then in turn is tough on copyright crimes.
Yup, business as usual.
Uh.. No Officer.. I just read it on slashdot that you accept cash.
hilarious
Are you a commie or something? What do you have against privatization of the law enforcement? It's the libertarian way and the libertarian way is also the American way.
No, no; a lot of other bands are being copied too, not just Ludacris.
Shill!
So where do you draw the line between tipping an officer for doing you a "favor" and bribing him to do you a "favor"?
I tip
You bribe
The MPAA induces massive police corruption
They may be bad, but they do not have monopolies. By definition, they can't be with all the freely available, legal non-pirated non-MPAA/RIAA films and music out there.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
Why is it that this makes me want to do a little happy dance? :)
I bet the MPAA thought that while their actions might have been *technically* illegal, they certainly weren't hurting anybody.
Sound familiar?
Sugapablo
New York's finest paid by MPAA
Bust down your door and take your movie away!
In de car or on de horse,
They'll take your DVD's with excessive force.
Bad cops, bad cops.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
An MPAA tip, for example, led to the recent prosecution of Randy Guthrie, the black sheep of a blueblood New York family, who was recently sentenced to 21/2 years in a Chinese jail for selling nearly $1 million in pirated movies over the Internet.
Why don't they just say 10.5 years?
You're SUPPOSED to tip police officers, it's only common courtesy.
How much does this great service cost? I can think of people I would like to have arrested...
# cat
Damn, my RAM is full of llamas.
"Couldn't hit the delete key fast enough" - the pirate's post
"What a waste of bandwidth" - Copying News Network
"Wasn't worth the 2 cd's I burnt it on" - the bandwidth tribune
Wayyyy OT, but I just thought of those, thought it might give someone a chuckle.
Am I a serf?
If he's a Briton and waiting tables then he's probably not of royal blood, so he is indeed a serf by the standards of free men today.
You're a serf, too, so here's a gentle reminder not to talk to your betters the way you did in your post.
"To put it in perspective I would rather write someone for J-walking..."
"You're a cop and you can't spell jaywalking ?"
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FreeMusicPush If you want to see more Free Music made, listen to Free
The only cop I would ever expect to surf Slashdot is Robocop.
Cheers, officer. Just having a funny.
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Apperantly they do, and don't call me shurley...
Behold, another webcomic!
Granted, the title I was hawking didn't help...
--- The American Way of Life is not a birthright. Hell, it's not even sustainable.
I will pay a bounty of $10,000 per MPAA employee conviction following your investigation into these crimes.
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Thank you,
A Concerned and Independently Wealthy Citizen
The MPAA are Italian and the RIAA are Japanese?
Did I take this too literally?
I remember when legal used to mean lawful, now it means some kind of loophole. - Leo Kessler